“Prodigious !”: Twitter reacts as Super-sub Erling Haaland scores a brace against Besiktas in his first UEFA Champions League match after returning from injury

“Prodigious !”: Twitter reacts as Super-sub Erling Haaland scores a brace against Besiktas in his first UEFA Champions League match after returning from injury

When Erling Haaland got injured about two months ago, he would not have imagined in his wildest dreams that his absence would cost him and his teams the entire season. Not only did Borussia Dortmund fail to qualify for the Round-of-16 of the UEFA Champions League in his absence, but also Norway, his national side, failed to make it to the playoffs of the European Qualifiers for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. And the Norwegian had nothing to do but sit back and lament.

Injuries do ruin things in all possible ways for Sportsmen and in the case of Erling Haaland, it came at the worst possible time. However, the 21-years old and he is a man on a mission. Haaland scored on his very first Bundesliga match coming back from injury and he repeated the same in the Champions League as well. In fact, he bettered it scoring a sensational brace against Besiktas in the last Group stage match of Borussia Dortmund, which is effectively also their last match of the current Champions League season. They will now head on to the UEFA Europa League.

WATCH: Erling Haaland’s brace against Besiktas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNQw7q8kkzc
Erling Haaland’s goals vs Besiktas

What makes Erling Haaland’s brace special is that he came in as a substitute at just the 61st minute and still managed to score 2 goals.

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Borussia Dortmund ran riot against Besiktas tonight. They won by a huge margin of 5-0. They needed to win by a 9 goal margin to qualify. But that was an impossible target and as expected, they fell short of that.

Both Marco Reus and Erling Haaland scored braces and the only other goal came from Dortmund’s new signing Donyell Malen.

Erling Haaland will now have loads to prove and loads of records to break in the UEFA Europa League. This might prove to be a silver lining for BVB. The UEFA Europa League is a competition that they are very much capable of winning and although it’s a demotion for a talent as superior as Erling Haaland, it will give the Norwegian a platform to prove his worth even further.

Let us now take a look at how Twitter reacted to Erling Haaland’s performance against Besiktas.

https://twitter.com/harryedwards16/status/1468353063576551437?t=h-0fa8PzlLv6XATy9iIkyQ&s=19

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