It is the duel of the flinguishing babies. Kylian Mbappé (21 years and 2 months) and Erling Haaland (19 years and 7 months) are the two phenomena that panic European football. On the road to precocity, the Frenchman took a step ahead with already a title of world champion but the Norwegian seems determined to be late. And in a world of football that goes a hundred an hour, the giant of Dortmund (1.94 m for 1.78 m for the Habs) almost makes its 18-month-old elder pass for a veteran.
We smile, but there is something fascinating about the way the old center of Salzburg is among the European leaders. Revealed by his 8 goals in six games in the Champions League group matches, Haaland must now shine at Borussia in a big European club where the expectations aroused are more difficult to assume. Nothing to impress the phenomenon which has scored nine goals in its first six games for the Ruhr club.
Mbappé on his side assumes his crack status for several years already with astounding consistency. Involved on 30 goals in his 30 games in the Champions League, he participates much more in the game than his evening opponent with 49 balls touched per game against 29 in Haaland. A confrontation of styles and distance that will take shape on Tuesday at Signa Iduna Park, theater of the confrontation of two nuggets. Enough to salivate the 80,000 spectators of the enclosure.
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