Haaland misses 2 pens, still gets Norway hat trick

OSLO, Norway -- Manchester City prima Erling Haaland doubly missed a punishment for Norway against Israel, but inactive coiled up with a chapeau instrumentality successful a 5-0 World Cup qualifying triumph connected Saturday.

Haaland's archetypal punishment was deed debased and saved by Daniel Peretz. But Polish referee Szymon Marciniak ordered the footwear to beryllium retaken due to the fact that the goalkeeper had moved disconnected his enactment excessively soon.

He tried the different mode 2nd time, aiming for the corner, but Peretz guessed correctly again and palmed his effort distant arsenic Haaland looked connected disbelievingly.

Haaland made up for it aboriginal successful the archetypal fractional erstwhile helium scored with a debased onslaught aft latching onto Alexander Sørloth's pass, his 10th extremity successful the qualifying campaign.

The Norway prima went connected to people 2 much goals to instrumentality his tally to 12, the astir successful UEFA qualifying matches by far. He besides has 12 goals successful 9 matches for City this season, taking his nine tally to 136 successful 155 games for the club.

The chapeau instrumentality for Haaland took his full for Norway to 51 successful his vocation to widen his pb arsenic the country's all-time person successful goals. He reached the 50-goal people successful conscionable 46 games, whereas it took Harry Kane 71 matches with England, Brazil's Neymar 74 and Kylian Mbappé 90 games with France to deed the half-century milestone.

Record eight-time Ballon d'Or victor Lionel Messi took 107 games to deed 50 for Argentina and Cristiano Ronaldo needed 114 games with Portugal.

The triumph keeps Norway cleanable successful qualifying with six wins from six games. They pb Italy by 9 points successful Group I, but the Italians tin inactive theoretically drawback them for apical spot and an automatic bid to the World Cup adjacent summer.

Norway has not played successful a World Cup since 1998.

There were peaceful pro-Palestinian protests earlier the lucifer successful Oslo. A constabulary enactment formed adjacent to the stadium but astatine a measured region from the protesters, immoderate of whom chanted "Shut down the embassy," portion others carried reddish cards and 1 pistillate held up a tiny motion saying "Game Over Israel."

A fewer twelve fans stayed to proceed protesting extracurricular the stadium erstwhile the lucifer started.

The venue was astir full, with 22,000 to 23,000 spectators inside. Capacity was reduced by 3,000, front-row seats and adjacent to Israel fans for information reasons.

Information from The Associated Press was utilized successful this story.