All eyes were on Haaland and Arsenal defender Gabriel as they renewed the rivalry that has become familiar to Premier League fans. <\/p>\n
The duo have shared several bruising battles in their club colours and this meeting on the international stage carried plenty of intrigue. <\/p>\n
But their latest meeting took time to come to life.<\/p>\n
Their first tussle did not arrive until after the half-hour mark and left Gabriel on the floor, while Haaland’s only touch inside the box in the quiet first half only led to a tame effort that was comfortably gathered by Alisson.<\/p>\n
As the game progressed, so did the threat possessed by Haaland.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old got ahead of Douglas Santos to almost slide in at the far post after a cross from Ajer in the 67th minute before the all-important moment 12 minutes later when he beat Gabriel to the key header.<\/p>\n
And in a warning to their potential next opponents England, Haaland then made a second all on his own to take his goal tally to seven from just four appearances. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile for Brazil, the loss will put the future of head coach Ancelotti into doubt.<\/p>\n
Brazil had just 33.5% of possession and only threatened from counter-attacks, but passed up the few chances that came their way. <\/p>\n
They had 14 attempts in the game but only four of them on target, generating an xG of 2.73. Norway, meanwhile, only had an xG of 0.84. <\/p>\n
Italian Ancelotti was appointed to the post in May 2025 after his departure from Real Madrid and helped Brazil secure World Cup qualification.<\/p>\n
He has a contract that runs until 2030 but the manner of this exit will mean the debate around his future starts far sooner than anyone in Brazil expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All eyes were on Haaland and Arsenal defender Gabriel as they renewed the rivalry that has become familiar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-675886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}