It’s perhaps not a surprise that Norway’s Erling Braut Haland is excelling at the Under-20 World Cup. He has the genetics – his father is former Man City and Leeds player Alf-Inge Haland – and the size – at 6ft 3in he towers over many of the other players at the tournament.
But few would have predicted he would score nine goals in a single match, as he did against Honduras on Thursday.
Norway’s 12-0 win was the largest in Under-20 World Cup history and his nine goals were the most ever in a single match by one player in the tournament. Only once in the history of the U-20 World Cup has a player scored more than nine in an entire tournament. Honduras played some of the match with nine players after two red cards.
Manchester United, Juventus and Borussia Dortmund have all been linked with Haland in the past, and United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjær coached the teenager when both men were still at Molde. Haland joined Red Bull Salzburg at the start of 2019.
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