Pascal Gross insists Borussia Dortmund should cease the “excellent” Erling Haaland when the Bundesliga facet face Manchester Metropolis on Wednesday.
Dortmund head to the Etihad Stadium aiming to increase their unbeaten begin to this season’s Champions League, through which they’ve registered seven factors from their opening three matches.
Nonetheless, they face a troublesome check within the type of the 2023 champions, who’re unbeaten of their final 22 house group/league video games within the competitors.
Niko Kovac’s facet are additionally developing in opposition to a well-known face in Haaland. The Metropolis quantity 9 spent two-and-a-half years at Dortmund, scoring 86 objectives in 89 appearances in all competitions, earlier than his big-money transfer to Manchester.
Haaland is now seeking to turn into the primary participant to attain in 5 straight Champions League appearances for 3 completely different golf equipment, having additionally achieved the feat with Dortmund and RB Salzburg.
And Gross is understandably cautious of the striker’s risk.
Good to fulfill you once more, Erling – at this time and tomorrow!#MCIBVB #UCL pic.twitter.com/Qj3Up11Yph
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“Haaland is an impressive participant who places up unbelievable numbers,” the midfielder stated. “We have now to cease him as a collective. We have now to play our sport collectively as a workforce.
“Metropolis may be extra beatable than in years passed by, however they nonetheless have absolute world-class gamers of their ranks, and are in a growth part.”
Kovac, in the meantime, believes his facet should attempt to go on the entrance foot to face any probability of attaining a optimistic consequence in opposition to Metropolis.
“We have now to defend excessive up the pitch,” he stated. “If we simply sit again deep, then the opposing workforce has the standard to work us over.
“We wish to preserve the sport away from our personal objective and keep true to that. We take that danger.”
