Haaland (Ultimate Football Heroes - The No.1 football series): Collect them all!

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He usually comes deep to collect the ball to help his team build play, often looking to spread the ball wide for a teammate, before turning and sprinting towards goal.

On 10 May, Dortmund announced that Haaland would be leaving at the end of the season to sign for Premier League club Manchester City. He scored his first goal in UEFA competition on 26 July, converting a penalty in Molde's 3–0 Europa League qualifying victory against KF Laçi. And the worrying thing for those hoping the well will run dry is that it is not a stretch to suggest Haaland and City are still getting used to each other, still perfecting the marriage of manager Pep Guardiola's passing game with the sheer power and menace the Norwegian offers. In the following match a week later, Haaland continued his scoring run with a brace against Vålerenga in a 5–1 win. If I’d been this madman out for revenge, why would I have waited years for an opportunity to injure him?Four days later, he bid farewell to the club at the Westfalenstadion prior to Dortmund's final match against Hertha BSC, and scored Dortmund's first goal in a 2–1 win.

Haaland got a brace against Union Berlin on 1 February, becoming the first player in history to score seven goals in their first three Bundesliga games. Still just 23 and in only his fifth campaign in the competition, the Norway striker is already 17th in the list of all-time Champions League scorers and having gone above the likes of Samuel Eto'o, Antoine Griezmann, Kaká and Wayne Rooney, is now within sight of Sergio Agüero, Alessandro Del Piero and Neymar.Despite being on the pitch in the league for only an hour, he won January's Bundesliga Player of the Month award. With 12 goals, Haaland finished as the top scorer of the Champions League season for a second time, [116] joining Lionel Messi as the only players to accomplish this feat twice before turning 23. Erling Haaland is only 23, but the Manchester City forward has been rewriting record books since he announced himself in the competition with a first-half hat-trick on his debut, also becoming only the third player to score five times in a UEFA Champions League match. In the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup, he won the tournament's Golden Boot after scoring a record nine goals in a single match.

Haaland scored twice on his league debut against West Ham United on 7 August 2022, the only goals of a 2–0 away victory. Highly regarded football journalist Lars Sivertsen follows Haaland’s meteoric rise to stardom in this biography, a tale that begins in the small Norwegian town of Bryne where they both grew up. His six goals were also the most scored by any player in their first three Champions League matches.

In his debut season with Manchester City, Norwegian sensation Erling Haaland has set the footballing world ablaze. The 22-year-old's past deeds at Red Bull Salzburg and Borussia Dortmund created a frenzy of expectation when he signed for City, but the rate at which Haaland has racked up goals has surprised even the most optimistic observers. Now lets see how your team does against a side that has had four practice games in the CL and who are now ready and armed. Even though he is less involved in possession than a typical striker, his calmness, patience, timing, and off-the-ball movement have a huge impact in build-up plays.