PREMIER LEAGUE
Erling Haaland cannot find goalscoring form for Manchester City in the Champions League
The Norwegian has been firing in the goals in the Premier League, but his robot legs seem to power down when he hears the UCL music.
Something’s up with Haaland. The striker, it seems, has awoken from the dream that he has been living in since the start of the season: he has gone from scoring 12 goals in last year’s Champions League to zero after two games in the 23/24 edition.
Haaland’s form has also started to affect Manchester City, who looked on the verge of desperation against RB Leipzig due to the lack of clear-cut scoring opportunities.
When did Haaland last score a Champions League goal?
It is shocking to see that City have scored 6 goals in their 2 games so far in the Champions League this season (3-1 vs Red Star & 1-3 vs RB Leipzig), but Haaland’s name has not been on the scoresheet once. Last season, by this point, he had already bagged 3 of the 12 goals he would end up scoring, finding the net twice against Sevilla and once against Dortmund.
The lack of a scoring touch for the forward in the Champions League has passed from being curious to worrying for City - thankfully they have Julián Álvarez. Haaland’s last goal in the competition was against Bayern in the quarter finals, and he has not managed to score since then, being invisible in front of goal in both games against Real Madrid (1-1 & 4-0) and the final vs Inter. It is his worst run in Europe since he broke onto the scene.
What is Haaland’s Premier League scoring record?
Where he is finding his feet is in the Premier League. Haaland is currently the top goalscorer in the division with 8 goals, although comparing this to his tally last season, it is clear to see that the Leeds-born forward has suffered a dip in form. After seven games in the previous league campaign, Haaland had already managed a whopping 11 goals, something of a drop off from his numbers last term.
The lack of goals in the biggest games from Haaland is something that is picking up steam in England, where he has been called a great goalscorer but not on the big occasions. This weekend, against Arsenal, he has a chance to put things right and show everyone what we have all believed until now: that he really is a robot.
