It’s Always Personal When I Go Up Against Haaland – Rudiger

Real Madrid defender, Antonio Rudiger has come out to send a warning to Erling Haaland. This is coming as he prepares to face the Manchester City striker in the UCL, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, the plan for the game would be to control dangerous players like Phil Foden, De Bruyne and Haaland, and it is always personal for him when he goes up against the Norwegian striker.

Rudiger added that Real Madrid won’t just sit back and watch City have possession all game as well.

His words, “It was a good game last year at the Bernabéu. We all did a great job keeping Haaland quiet that evening. And my teammates did a good job keeping [Kevin] De Bruyne quiet. This time, the plan will be to control dangerous players like Phil Foden, De Bruyne, and Haaland… It’s personal for me as a defensive player, against a super striker like Haaland.

We won’t only sit back and watch City have possession. But that’s part of the game. There will be phases where we have to defend more, and we’re willing to do that.”

WOW.

Erling Braut Haaland is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Manchester City and the Norway national team. Considered one of the best players in the world, he is known for his speed, strength, positioning, and finishing inside the box. Haaland holds the record for the most goals scored by a player in a single Premier League season, with 36.

Haaland was born on 21 July 2000 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, as his father Alfie Haaland was playing for Leeds United in the Premier League at the time. In 2004, at the age of three, he moved to Bryne, his parents’ hometown in Norway.

Along with playing football from an early age, Haaland took part in various other sports as a child, including handball, golf, and track and field. He also reportedly achieved a world record in his age category for the standing long jump when he was five, with a recorded distance of 1.63 metres in 2006.