Thanks to Erling Haaland, the Norwegian national team can continue to hope for the European Championship ticket. The former BVB goalscorer himself is now a bit annoyed with constantly being the center of attention.
“I’m slowly getting tired of my name. Sometimes it’s a bit stressful and I’m slowly getting a bit tired of always hearing my name,” complained the 23-year-old on Thursday after the 4-0 win against Cyprus on “TV2” .
Against the underdog, Manchester City’s star player paved the way to a clear away win with two goals. In Larnaca, even the Cypriot fans celebrated Haaland with chants at times.
However, he didn’t want to miss out on such support from the stands, explained the goalgetter. “I appreciate the support, so I won’t complain.”
For Haaland and his colleagues there are only two games left in the European Championship qualification. The Scandinavians still have participation in EURO 2024 in Germany in their own hands.
Haaland nets in the European Championship qualification
However, with ten points, Norway is currently only in third place behind Scotland (15 points) and Spain (12 points). Staale Solbakken’s team still has to leave one opponent behind.
The preliminary decision should come in the duel with the Spaniards on Sunday evening (8:45 p.m.) in Oslo. Accordingly, Erling Haaland’s focus is currently entirely on this game.
“It was an important victory and now we have to start thinking about Spain. We all put up a good fight. Now we just have to return home to Oslo and prepare well for the next game. We know “Spain is a good team, one of the best,” emphasized the attacker on Thursday in Cyprus.
With six goals in four games, Haaland is once again one of the most accurate players in the European Championship qualification. Only Romelu Lukaku (9 goals) and Cristiano Ronaldo (7 goals) have more goals to their name.