Manchester City will attempt to gain a first-leg advantage in the Champions League quarter-finals when they welcome Bayern Munich to the Etihad Stadium on Tuesday night.
The Citizens comfortably dispatched German opposition in the previous round, thrashing RB Leipzig 8-1 on aggregate in the last 16, including a 7-0 demolition in the second leg on home soil last month.
Goal machine Erling Braut Haaland was the star of the show in the second leg with a record-breaking five-goal haul, and the 22-year-old has since bagged another quintet of goals across his last two games against Burnley and Southampton.
A hat-trick in a 6-0 FA Cup victory over Burnley before the international break was followed by a brace in a 4-1 Premier League win away against Southampton last weekend, increasing his goal tally for the season to a remarkable 43 in just 38 games across all competitions.
Haaland will be confident of continuing his strong run of goalscoring form in Tuesday's mouth-watering contest with Bayern Munich, and here, Sports Mole takes a closer look at the Norwegian's record against the Bundesliga giants.
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Haaland has faced Bayern competitively on seven occasions across his professional career, all of which with former club Borussia Dortmund where he spent two-and-a-half years between January 2020 and June 2022.
The 22-year-old has made five appearances against the Bavarian giants in the Bundesliga as well as two outings in the German Super Cup final, and on all seven occasions the striker has ended up on the losing side – Bayern are the only club team that Haaland has played against on more than two occasions in his career without winning.
Haaland has made his presence known in the final third, though, as he has scored five goals for Dortmund in his seven encounters with Bayern; only against Leipzig (11), Sevilla and Wolfsberger (both six) has he scored more goals against a single opponent in his career.
The Norwegian was unable to made the desired impact in his first-ever game against Bayern as Dortmund fell to a slender 1-0 Bundesliga defeat in May 2020, with the striker forced off in the 72nd minute due to injury.
However, Haaland found the net in all three meetings with Bayern the following season, with a goal and an assist in the 2020 German Super Cup final helping Dortmund come from two goals down to restore parity, before Bayern ran out 3-2 winners courtesy of a Joshua Kimmich goal in the 82nd minute.
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In the Bundesliga, Dortmund's former No.9 followed up a second-half strike in a 3-2 home defeat in November 2020 with a quickfire brace inside the opening nine minutes in a 4-2 away loss four months later.
Haaland then failed to score in a 3-1 Super Cup final loss to Bayern in August 2021 as well as a Bundesliga defeat at the Allianz Arena by the same scoreline eight months later, but in between those fixtures, he curled a right-footed strike beyond Manuel Neuer in a 3-2 home defeat in December 2021.
Indeed, Haaland's final Dortmund goal against Bayern was his only strike with his right foot, with the previous four all slotted home with his favoured left foot.
After completing his £51m transfer from Dortmund to Man City last summer, Haaland scored a decisive goal on his debut for the Citizens in a 1-0 friendly victory against Bayern during a pre-season tour of the USA, sliding the ball home from a few yards out after receiving a pass from Jack Grealish.
Haaland has scored 30 of his 43 goals for City at the Etihad this season – including eight in the Champions League – and will be hoping that his electric goalscoring form can help Pep Guardiola's men register an important first-leg victory over Bayern on Tuesday.
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