Haaland hat-trick leads Norway closer to World Cup

Erling Haaland has scored three times successful a thumping World Cup qualifying victory for Norway, while Turkey, Italy and Spain besides fashioned bully wins.

Erling Haaland has scored a hat-trick against Israel to walk 50 goals for Norway aft twice missing a punishment successful a 5-0 World Cup qualifying victory.

The 25-year-old Haaland extended his starring tally successful European qualifying to a singular 12 goals successful six games, and his wide Norway total to 51 successful 46 matches.

France star Kylian Mbappe and Poland’s Robert Lewandowski took 90 games to deed the half-century, while grounds eight-time Ballon d’Or winner Lionel Messi took 107 for Argentina and Cristiano Ronaldo needed 114 games with Portugal.

Also successful Group I enactment connected Saturday, second-placed Italy earned a fourth-straight win of the run with a comfy 3-1 victory implicit Estonia successful Tallinn.

European champions Spain maintained their cleanable start to qualifying with a 2-0 win implicit Georgia successful Elche.

Yeremy Pino fired the hosts successful beforehand aft 24 minutes and though Ferran Torres had his punishment saved by Liverpool goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili earlier the break, Mikel Oyarzabal crashed successful a superb escaped footwear to unafraid a third-straight Group E win.

Real Madrid’s Arda Guler was among the scorers arsenic Turkey returned to winning ways with a 6-1 thrashing implicit Bulgaria and kept the unit connected Spain.

In Lisbon, Ruben Neves got Portugal retired of jailhouse with an added-time winner against Ireland aft Ronaldo had seen his punishment saved by Caoimhin Kelleher.

Also successful Group F, Hungary boosted their hopes of qualifying by scoring their archetypal win with a 2-0 victory implicit Armenia.

In Oslo, Haaland scored with an angled changeable successful the 27th minute, a almighty downward header successful the 63rd and a back-post header successful the 72nd. A fewer minutes into the game, however, helium was disconnected target.

Haaland’s archetypal punishment was saved by Daniel Peretz, but the Polish referee ordered the footwear to beryllium retaken due to the fact that the goalkeeper had moved disconnected his enactment too soon.

He tried the different way 2nd clip but Peretz guessed correctly again and palmed his effort distant arsenic Haaland looked connected disbelievingly.

Aside from the hat-trick, Haaland was besides progressive successful Norway’s third extremity when his looming beingness led to Israel’s 2nd ain extremity of the game.

Elsewhere successful Group K, Andorra picked up their archetypal constituent with a 2-2 gully against Latvia and Albania ran retired 1-0 winners implicit Serbia.