Borussia Dortmund know only too well of Erling Haaland&rsquo;s ability to destroy defences in the <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/sports/football/article/uefa-champions-league-news-napoli-overwhelms-liverpool-in-4-1-win-23244829" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Champions League,</a> but the German giants may die by the sword they previously lived by when they visit Manchester City on Wednesday.&nbsp;
Haaland blossomed into one of the world&rsquo;s most feared strikers during two-and-a-half years in Germany, scoring 86 goals in 89 games for Dortmund.&nbsp;
<h2>A dozen goals for City</h2>
Eight games into his City career, the giant Norway striker with a devastating turn of speed has already scored 12 times for the English champions.&nbsp;
<img title="Pep Guardiola" src="http://origin.mid-day.com/images/2022/sep/manches-erling-b_e.jpg" alt="Pep Guardiola" width="1280" height="720" />Pep Guardiola
&ldquo;His numbers in all his career, not just here but when he was in previous teams, is quite similar,&rdquo; said City boss Pep Guardiola after Haaland struck twice in a 4-0 win at Sevilla to kick off City&rsquo;s latest quest to break their Champions League duck. &ldquo;He has an incredible sense of goal.&rdquo;&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.mid-day.com/sports/football/article/erling-haaland-becomes-fastest-player-to-reach-25-uefa-champions-league-goals-23244677" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Haaland</a>&rsquo;s bargain 60 million euro (&pound;51 million, $63 million) buyout clause meant he had his choice of clubs after he had outgrown his surroundings in the Bundesliga.&nbsp;
Dortmund may provide the perfect breeding ground for Europe&rsquo;s top talents to develop in the early years of their career, but they cannot compete financially with the continent&rsquo;s wealthiest clubs, nor satisfy the ambitions of the world&rsquo;s best players in the long term. Haaland followed in the footsteps of Jadon Sancho, Christian Pulisic, Ousmane Dembele, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Robert Lewandowski and Mario Goetze as stars of the future to fly the nest after briefly leaving their mark in western Germany.&nbsp;
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However, losing Haaland may prove the biggest loss of all with the 22-year-old threatening to rewrite records set by Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi that many believed would remain intact for generations. Haaland&rsquo;s double against Sevilla took his tally in the Champions League to 25 goals in 20 games. At the same stage of their careers, Ronaldo, the competition&rsquo;s all-time top goalscorer with 140, was yet to score, while Messi struck eight times in his first 20 matches in Europe&rsquo;s elite club competition.&nbsp;
<h2>&lsquo;It&rsquo;s a big dream for me&rsquo;</h2>
&ldquo;I love the Champions League. I have to say this, it&rsquo;s a big dream for me,&rdquo; Haaland told Telemundo Deportes this week as he revealed the competition&rsquo;s anthem is the ringtone on his phone. &ldquo;When I wake up every morning, I listen to this song. It&rsquo;s my favourite competition.&rdquo; Haaland&rsquo;s haul in the Champions League was also why City were so desperate to sign him as the successor to the club&rsquo;s all-time top goalscorer Sergio Aguero.&nbsp;
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Man City boss Guardiola hails striker Erling Haaland’s impressive speed and  consistency ahead of their Champions League match against Dortmund

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