When Borussia Monchengladbach tackle Borussia Dortmund on Saturday, two of the Bundesliga’s freshest younger strikers will face off in Marcus Thuram and Erling Haaland.
And there are uncanny similarities between Gladbach’s unstoppable drive in assault and Dortmund’s dead-eye marksman.
Marcus Thuram vs Erling Haaland | Two exceptional goal-getters
Having arrived from Guingamp closing summertime, it took Thuram till Match Day Five to open his league account for Die Fohlen when he grabbed a match-winning double in a 2-1 overcome Fortuna Dusseldorf, even though he has now not appeared again since.
At provide, the Frenchman has six targets and 8 assists to his title – along with his general of 14 target involvement a tally that isn’t higher through any of his team-mates at Borussia Park.
When incomplete flight, Thuram – who clocked a most sensible velocity of 35.6 kilometres in step with an hour in spite of status at 1.92 metres – is unstoppable whether or not he’s deployed at the wing or as the point of interest in assault and he has shaped a part of a perilous assault with Alassane Plea, Breel Embolo, Lars Stindl and Patrick Herrmann, who every pose a unique risk of with their various strengths.
Perhaps the have an effect on that the 22-year-old has made will have to now not come as a wonder making an allowance for the pedigree he boasts because the son of mythical defender Lilian Thuram, who received each the 1998 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2000 with France whilst additionally spending time with European giants Juventus and Barcelona.
Like the more youthful Thuram, Haaland additionally arrived within the Bundesliga with a well-known surname that was once in the past extra famously related along with his father Alf-Inge Haaland, who spent a decade within the Premier League with Nottingham Forest, Leeds United and Manchester City.
And identical to how Marcus Thuram is making his title for scoring targets when his father used to excel in combating them, Erling Haaland is a ways cry from the hard-tackling midfielder that Alf-Inge was once.
Having best joined Dortmund from Red Bull Salzburg in January, the 19-year-old’s title is already entered within the document books along with his 9 targets in his first six Bundesliga fits a feat by no means accomplished sooner than.
Standing taller than Thuram at 1.94 metres and nearly simply as fast, Haaland could also be a drive of nature within the ultimate 3rd and reasons all kinds of issues for opposition defences.
He may now not have requested for a greater debut when he got here off the bench and netted a hat-trick to encourage BVB to a come-from-behind Five-Three victory at Augsburg on January 18, and actually introduced himself as one in every of European soccer’s stars with two targets in a 2-1 overcome Paris Saint-Germain within the first leg of the UEFA Champions League Round of 16.
They are the sons of well-known footballers already making a reputation for themselves with their sheer energy and fatal eye for target, with each main the fee for 2 groups gunning to win the Bundesliga in what’s proving to be a four-way fight for the Meisterschale.
This weekend, at Borussia Park, whichever of them surpasses the opposite would move some distance in serving to their respective membership declare what generally is a very powerful 3 issues.