From Manchester to the Nordic autumn, Erling Haaland has carried his World Cup momentum straight into the new campaign. Norway’s striker struck twice in Thursday’s Nations League opener, a 3-2 win over Denmark, to take his early-season return to nine goals in eight appearances for club and country.
A relentless start across two shirts
Haaland’s brace against Denmark was already his third two-goal display of the season. He had previously scored twice in Manchester City’s 2-0 Champions League victory over Porto and again in the 4-1 Premier League win at Crystal Palace.
- 9 goals in 8 matches for Manchester City and Norway.
- 3 braces so far this season.
- 2 goals against Porto in the Champions League.
- 2 goals at Crystal Palace in the Premier League.
- 2 goals in Norway’s 3-2 Nations League victory over Denmark.
Six matches without drawing a blank
The Denmark double extended Haaland’s scoring sequence to six consecutive games. He has found the net in every outing since the league trip to Selhurst Park on 28 August, in the second round of the Premier League season.
That spell also included the derby at Old Trafford, where Haaland’s goal settled the contest. The match carried an offside controversy involving Enzo, with the refereeing authority later accepting that the player should have been penalised. The result maintained Maresca’s team’s perfect Premier League record.
The only quiet nights
There have been only two appearances without a Haaland goal in the current campaign, both coming at the beginning of the schedule.
- Arsenal 3-0 Manchester City in the Community Shield.
- Manchester City’s Premier League opener against Bournemouth.
Since then, the forward has turned a fast opening month into a cross-border scoring run, with City’s European fixtures and Norway’s Nations League programme both feeding the same remarkable total.
