As if the defeat of Club Brugge on the field of Dortmund was the most normal thing in the world. The German press hardly spent a letter on Club Brugge. What was it about then? The impressive figures of striker Erling Haaland and… the fact that 16-year-old Youssoufa Moukoko was not allowed to fill in.
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The stories were probably ready, including roaring heads. Dortmund coach Favre would sometime in the second half, at a time when the game would have been played for a long time, youssoufa Moukoko, who had just turned sixteen, into the field. This would immediately make the young attacker the youngest player ever in the Champions League. So our German colleagues had something useful to write about. Because the match itself was not expected too much.
Unfortunately Moukoko was not allowed to fill in. Fortunately, Erling Haaland was there to entertain the people. Two goals again, sixteen goals after just twelve games in the Champions League and barely a few days after he had also scored four goals in the Bundesliga. Haaland is hot. ‘Dortmund-Gala von Sancho und Haaland’, Germany’s most widely read newspaper Bild still headlined with some enthusiasm. Furthermore, nothing but sober headlines: ‘Haalands Rekordspiel’ we read in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Express talks about Haalands ‘Fabelrekord’ and the football magazine Kicker notes that Dortmund is with one big toe with two feet in the next round of the Champions League. .
About Club Brugge? There was hardly a word about it. Only the soap about Emanuel Dennis was worth another paragraph for the local press. For the rest, the residents of Bruges were treated with respect and the German press also seemed to realize that the difference in class was so great in advance that the course of the match yesterday was no more than logic itself.
Haaland Haaland Haaland
In the rest of Europe too, the focus was mainly on Erling Haaland. The Daily Mail once again emphasized the miraculous numbers of the young Norwegian and states that he is already doing better than Cristiano Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane. De Telegraaf concludes that Club Brugge cannot stop the phenomenon of Haaland either. Nobody pointing the finger at Club Brugge.
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