On Tuesday, March 14, the return match of the 1/8 finals of the Champions League between Manchester City and RB Leipzig took place. The game ended with a crushing victory for the “citizens” with a score of 7:0 (the first match – 1:1).
Star Norwegian striker Erling Holland in this fight he scored a penta-trick in 57 minutes.
During the fight, a well-known journalist and insider Fabrizio Romano posted a tweet saying:
“Lesson number one: never give out statistics while Erling Haaland is playing football.”
The fact is that Erling in this match scored two goals in a row very quickly twice: the 1st and 2nd goals with a difference of 2 minutes and the 4th and 5th with a difference of 4 minutes. Some publics did not even have time to notify the Norwegian about the goal scored, as they already had to write about his next goal…
Romano’s Twitter post got 31,000 likes in just a few hours.
Lesson number one: never report stats while Erling Haaland is playing football.
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) March 14, 2023