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It was just under half an hour into Saturday’s home fixture against Schalke 04 that Haaland had a usable chance from a slightly acute angle to the right and had to finish with his right leg. It was a loose end and rather unusual for Dortmund’s Norwegian goal thief.

Viasat’s expert commentator Lars Tjærnås immediately pointed out that Haaland’s right leg is not Haaland’s best. The same was pointed out by study expert Rune Bratseth.

The experts are true to their word if you look at the statistics. But Erling Braut Haaland responded to those degrees in the indictment.

Of course, it was a sensitive forehand tilt that gave Dortmund 2-0 after 61 minutes of play. Then Tjærnås immediately crawled up to the cross.

– You can shoot with your right leg, nose or whatever, he stated, continuing:

– It’s pure Haaland magic.

Schalke caused problems

Tjærnås is once again very impressed with what Haaland achieved in a pressure situation.

– If you get so close to the goalkeeper, with such a sharp angle and with your worst leg, then the odds are diminished by all three. He doesn’t care about anything and is leaning 2-0, Tjærnås said.

It was a difficult first half for both Dortmund and Haaland in a match in which opponent Schalke was only looking to defend and enveloped the Norwegian star forward as best he could.

But when Manuel Akanji made it 1-0 in the 55th minute, it slackened for Dortmund. Haaland doubled down before Mats Hummels made it 3-0 in the 78th minute.

– Look how disappointed he gets

In the studio, Rune Bratseth and Jan Åge Fjørtoft took their hats off for both Haaland’s goal and Dortmund’s collective attacking game. They also give Jadon Sancho much of the credit for Haaland’s passing.

– Power and timing are optimal on the pass, and we’ve seen it before, says Bratseth.

– It is a fantastic team to play combined football, technically they are perfect. It’s a pleasure to watch, and at the same time, Haaland is extremely good at getting playable. He’s constantly on the move, and that blast when he gets going … He hardly ever goes out of play, never stays there, and then demands the ball, says the former Werder Bremen cliff, and has more in stock:

– You see how disappointed he is when he does not receive the ball when he can score goals. Burns for the next goal all the time.

– Hit him on the head

Exactly that confirms a brilliantly happy Haaland, who reveals that he processes his teammates in practice every day.

– I make fun of them every day – “look at me, look at me”. I do this almost every day, and it hits me over the head that I want the ball all the way when I’m in good positions. And we trained in specific situations in training, and today you see that I was able to get more balls, but it was a good goal, says Haaland in Viasat.

Here’s how he describes the score:

– It was fantastic. At first he was close, at first we misunderstood a possibility, but now I had the ball, so Jadon, he didn’t want to run, so I played him and then it was just to lower my neck and escape. And then he played me perfectly, and then it was a beautiful crunch.

Five goals behind Lewandowski

It was an important victory for Borussia Dortmund. First, they had to go up after the Champions League loss to Lazio on Tuesday, where a goal from Haaland was the only bright spot. But not least, it was important with three points to hang with RB Leipzig and Bayern Munich in the gold match in the Bundesliga.

For Erling Braut Haaland, scoring was also important to keep up in the battle for the top scorer title. With the goal on Saturday, he stands with five goals in five games.

A goal on average still pales in comparison to what Robert Lewandowski has achieved for Bayern Munich so far.

He has ten goals after three goals against Frankfurt on Saturday night, that is to say, two goals on average per game.