Haaland marked his World Cup debut with a first half brace. His first goal came just after 28 minutes, under a minute after the first half hydration break and added a second after 42 minutes.
Haaland’s first goal came when he tapped in a square ball from Wolves defender David Moller Wolfe. Aymen Hussein – who was held and questioned for around seven hours by authorities when he arrived in the US earlier this month – then leveled with a brilliant header 10 minutes later. It was only Iraq’s second-ever World Cup goal and their first in 40 years.
But just before the break, Haaland chased down a bad back pass to goalkeeper Jalal Hassan, and put the ball past the goal keeper to put Norway back in the lead.
With 14 minutes of the 90 left to play, substitute Leo Ostigard was able to run unchallenged to meet Martin Odegaard’s corner and head home, then the own goal from the Iraq’s Hussein sealed the win for Norway in the 96th minute of the game.
