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Sébastien Haller with Ajax against BVB

Dhe collection of ever new records that Erling Haaland has now put together is quite impressive, but the young attacker from Borussia Dortmund has already lost another record. Finally. Haaland scored four goals in his first two Champions League games and until the end of September belonged to an illustrious circle of record holders with Marco van Basten, Diego Simeone and Didier Drogba.

But now Ajax Amsterdam’s Sébastien Haller has scored the fifth goal in the second game in a 2-0 win against Besiktas Istanbul on the second match day of the current season. “A kind of dream” are the past few weeks, says the 27-year-old attacker after this breathtaking start of a late Champions League career, which this Tuesday (9 p.m. in the FAZ live ticker for the Champions League and on Amazon Prime Video) with the The Dortmund guest performance in the Johan Cruyff Arena will be continued. At BVB, they will not only be paying close attention to Haller because of his successful run. The former Frankfurt resident has become a potential successor for Haaland.

Sports director Michael Zorc, licensed player boss Sebastian Kehl and coach Marco Rose are finally forced to deal with the question of which strikers Haaland could one day inherit. The budding world star is being courted by the biggest clubs in the world. There is still hope that he will stay, but the likelihood of a longer collaboration is not great. Haller is one of the most obvious successor options after his recent appearances.

Will Haller follow Haaland?

Holland is not far, the Amsterdam striker scored 24 goals in 60 games at Eintracht Frankfurt between 2018 and 2020, prepared 15 more and thus showed that the Bundesliga suits him. In addition, the strong performances in Amsterdam feed the suspicion that the Eredivisie may be a size too small for this professional. Or not? Because wherever Haller plays, there is often controversial discussion about his abilities.

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