Looking back at the reports from Erling Haaland’s first competitive match in English football provides a reminder of the dangers of judging players too harshly too early.
“Upstaged,” “a debut to forget,” and “barely touched the ball,” were all words that featured in s report of Haaland’s debut in the 2022 Community Shield between Manchester City and Liverpool. A “horror show,” said . Haaland looked “bewildered,” according to , while said he was “near-anonymous” and “disrupted the side’s rhythm”. BBC Sport’s stats on the Norwegian
