Injury News: An update on Erling Haaland

Erling Haaland will bear extra testing to find out the extent of muscle harm sustained in Borussia Dortmund’s 3-2 victory towards Hoffenheim on Saturday.

Haaland was pulled off within the second half on the PreZero Enviornment after taking a knock.

The Norway worldwide will start remedy this week for muscle difficulties and now faces a race to be wholesome for Bayer Leverkusen’s go to on February 6.

A Dortmund assertion learn: “Haaland was examined intimately on Sunday and Monday. In keeping with the medical report, the Norwegian is affected by muscular issues, which would require remedy and additional examinations within the coming days. 

“We hope that Erling will probably be again to full health as quickly as potential and may get again to doing what he loves essentially the most – scoring objectives for BVB.” 

Haaland has 23 objectives in all competitions for Dortmund this season. Amongst gamers from the highest 5 European leagues, solely Actual Madrid’s Karim Benzema (24) and Robert Lewandowski (34) have extra entries.

Haaland, nonetheless, has the best minutes per objective ratio of 70.4 amongst gamers who’ve scored greater than ten objectives. With a objective each 71 minutes, Lewandowski is an in depth second.