Just when you think you’ve stopped Erling Haaland, he goes and does something like THAT. jonawils on the difference-making Man City forward, who, as Dortmund should have known, is a handful to fully contain
. It took 80 minutes for Man City to have its first shot on target, but two very different and brilliant goals ensured a 2–1 win and its second victory out of two games in the group stage.
In terms of chances, the first half had largely been a non-event and it took 20 minutes of the second half for City even to begin to get going, by which time it was behind on Jude Bellingham’s header. Sluggish patches aren’t entirely unknown in the Champions League group stage for City, when there is perhaps less urgent to get all three points in every game, but still, coming after the surprising Premier League draw at Aston Villa, the drabness of the performance must have been a concern.
Generally, though, City was slow and ponderous, its bluntness only partly the result of Dortmund’s excellence defensively. Dortmund, of course, deserves credit for the way the Mats Hummels handled Haaland, supported by a midfield that dropped very deep to deny City any creative space, but this was also about City., with Haaland missing two decent chances, there were a lot of questions about whether he could be as prolific in England as he had previously been in Austria and Germany.
But Haaland doesn’t care. He is like some creature brought to life at midnight in a tower during a storm, the result of some dangerous experiment to create the perfect goalscorer. If he has forebears, they are rare: the Brazilian Ronaldo, perhaps, before the injuries, Zlatan Ibrahimović, Eduard Streltsov or Bernabé Ferreyra, astonishingly powerful forwards who coupled that with great technical ability.Darren Staples/Sportimage/Imago Images.
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