Haaland pounded the drum, twice, with his left hand. “Ro!” the crowd responded. He did it again, looking somewhat dissatisfied with the response. A third time. Now, he was happy. By the sixth or seventh double-bang, he was picking up the pace. Sixteen double-bangs in all, before he slammed the sticks onto the pitch and jumped around, smiling, with his jubilant teammates.
Haaland now has seven goals in this World Cup, tying him with Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappé for the tournament lead. He’s scored in an unfathomable 14 straight competitive games for Norway, piling up 27 goals over this period. Haaland now has 62 goals in 54 games for his country. Mbappé has 63 for France—in 103 games. “For Erling, I'm lost for words,” says Norway midfielder Andreas Schjelderup. “We’re all lost for words. I think we’re all just happy that he’s Norwegian.”
Brazil, which exits the World Cup before a quarterfinal for the first time since 1900, had a chance to score first, on a penalty in the 14th minute. Brazilian superstar Vinícius Júnior, of Real Madrid, held the ball at the penalty spot. But one of the world’s elite scorers handed it to Bruno Guimarães. After the match, Brazil coach Carlo Ancelotti said the data indicated Guimarães was Brazil’s best available penalty shooter. Norwegian keeper Orjan Nyland dove to his left to stop Guimarães’ attempt, Brazil’s first unsuccessful World Cup penalty shot, not including shootouts, since 1986.
Last summer, Haaland told TIME, in no uncertain words, “Norway will never win the World Cup.” He wasn’t knocking his teammates, per se: Haaland was thinking like a realist, given Norway’s uninspiring World Cup history, and the prospect of facing global powers—like Brazil—in North America. Just getting to the World Cup was a victory.
Now, with three more wins, Haaland would give his country, and the soccer world, the most blessedly incorrect take of all-time. “I didn’t dream of this ever in my life,” says Haaland. “I dreamed of playing in the World Cup with Norway, and taking them to the World Cup. But I never expected to win against Brazil. Let’s be honest and say that. I thought it was not possible to do some things. But I guess I’m wrong.”
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