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Exclusive: Meet the Gibraltar international keeper who stopped Erling Haaland from scoring

Exclusive: Meet the Gibraltar international keeper who stopped Erling Haaland from scoring

How many goals will Erling Haaland score for Manchester City next season? That’s the most common question in English football right now following City’s high profile signing of Haaland.

The forward has 86 goals in 89 appearances since joining Borussia Dortmund and is the youngest player (aged 20) to score 20 goals in the Champions League.

Haaland also averages almost one goal a game for his national side but there is one team he has not been able to score against – and that’s minnow side Gibraltar.

Dayle Coleing – who was the goalkeeper in net for the March 2021 fixture – revealed the media gave him ‘motivation’ to produce a Player of the Match performance and keep Haaland off the scoresheet.

“We obviously always go into the game as underdogs and before the game against Norway even started, the media was writing us off saying Haaland would score two hat-tricks with silly betting odds so that kind of gave me (the) motivation to shut everyone up if you like,” Coleing exclusively told Planet Sport.

“Once the game started and once the whistle went, I went into this mode where I was determined to not let him score. He did have a few shots on goal, I think it was about four or five. So it wasn’t like he had a chance, he did have quite a few chances and they were good chances at that.

“But once I saved the first within the first five minutes, I had the confidence, and it would take him or anyone else quite a lot to score against me. And fortunately, I had a very good game.

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