Dortmund (Germany) (AFP)

Two goals, his 9th and 10th in the Champions League this season knocked out PSG (2-1). Erling Haaland, the 19-year-old prodigy striker, seems to know no limits since his arrival in Dortmund in January.

"These are the moments for which we play football, I really enjoyed it," said DAZN the man of the match, apparently more intimidated by the microphones than by the opposing defenders.

In the classification of scorers of the C1, it is tied with Robert Lewandowski, the gunner of Bayern, who had scored ten times in the group stage.

Haaland, he had hit eight times in the jersey of Salzburg, the Austrian champion he left in the winter transfer window.

He had already dazzled the Bundesliga in three weeks, but one wondered what this young player, completely unknown six months ago, would be able to do in the cleaver matches of the queen competition.

The response was scathing. In eight minutes (69th and 77th), he scored twice, including a superb second goal, an overpowered tight shot of 20 meters under the bar of Keylor Navas.

Before that, he had been discreet. A shot on target in the 35th minute, and a ball touched from the head on a center of Jadon Sancho on the following action.

But this giant of 1.94 m with a steel mind and an amazing technique for its size, is one of those forerunners hunter who know how to stay on the lookout for the time necessary, to spring up when the opportunity arises .

- Earliness records -

The list of his earliest records is starting to be known: he is the first player under the age of twenty to have scored in his first five C1 matches. He also became in September, at 19 years and 58 days, the third youngest author of a hat-trick (against Genk) in the competition. Only the legendary Raul and Wayne Rooney had managed to be earlier!

Dortmund went to get him in Austria, for 20 million euros, and the fireworks continued: his hat-trick and two doubles for his first three Bundesliga games in January sparked real madness in Germany.

"I try to think where I can score a goal, where the ball is going to come from, it's a lot of instinct," he said recently to try to explain his incredible success. "I feel good, from the start I could be myself, that's a good sign. Then the results come by themselves".

"He is one of those guys who are thoroughly training and who go into all duels," roused his teammate Mats Hummels, 2014 world champion.

Son of Alf-Inge Haaland, 34-time Norwegian international at the turn of the century, Erling Braut was born on July 21, 2000 in Leeds, England, when his father had just been transferred from Leeds United to Manchester City.

He made his debut in the Norwegian first division with the small club of the Molde FK in June 2017, even before having celebrated his 17th birthday. Recruited in January 2019 by RB Salzburg, Red Bull's football nursery, he left after only a year to sign a contract with Dortmund until 2024.

But if he continues at this rate, not sure that the Ruhr club can keep him for a long time against the lusts of the giants of the continent.

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