Erling Haaland, the new darling of Dortmund. - Ina Fassbender / AFP

  • Double scorer against PSG, the young Erling Haaland martyred the Parisian defense Tuesday evening.
  • Arriving this winter from Red Bull Salzburg, the Norwegian striker had a crazy start with Borussia Dortmund.

From our special envoy to Dortmund,

The symbol is too beautiful and the comparison too obvious for us not to jump on it. Two years ago, on this same lawn of Signal Iduna Park, an extraordinary footballer was born in the eyes of Europe. His name, Kylian Mbappé.

Tuesday night against PSG, it is another teenager that the followers of the Champions League discovered. Erling Haaland, 19, walked on the Paris defense for 90 minutes, scoring a double for his first steps at this level of the competition, including a simply magical horse strike under the bar of Keylor Navas.

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You had to hear the 63,000 Borussia fans shouting his name to get the vocal cords farting after his left scud to realize that the kid is already in conquered territory in Dortmund. Arrived this winter escorted by a sacred reputation as a defiler, the former scorer of Red Bull Salzburg did not take long to get to the level of the Bundesliga. More exactly three minutes. It was the time it took him to score his first goal in the yellow and black jersey. It was January 18 last against Augsburg. And as long as he did, Haaland slammed two more in the same match, ending his first Bundesliga encounter with a hat-trick in the search.

Since then, the boy continued to investigate the pawns. In seven games with Borussia, Haaland (pronounced [Joland]) hit 19 times, framed 13 times and scored 11 goals. The assassin… At first glance, however, one would think that the player would suffer from this giant body (1.94m). It is not so. Powerful, obviously, but technical too. And fast. Very fast. Tuesday, against PSG, the number 17 was timed at 6.64 seconds over a race of 60 meters. To get an idea, the world record for this distance is 6.34. Here it is.

The proof that #Haaland is not human an incredible high speed and intensity race over 100 meters, it is a machine 😱😱😱pic.twitter.com / WU8GM8sQBp

- Karim Rezali (@foot_sanslimite) February 19, 2020

Haaland, "the darling"

We took advantage of Torgan Hazard's passage in the mixed zone to find out his opinion on Haaland: “It has already become the darling of the public. He connects the goals, he moves the defenses. There were a lot of people wondering if he was really as strong as what they said, I think he showed it to everyone tonight. He responds and he does us good. Now the hardest part begins for him. ” Namely, confirm.

Given the mentality of the player, we do not have too many doubts on this. After riding Thiago Silva for a good part of the evening and scoring the two goals for his team, Erling Haaland was choosy: “I still have to improve a lot. Of course, two goals is good, but I could have scored more. But we will be satisfied with it. Yes, there you go, let's do that.

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