Haaland’s feats in the game vs Brazil
*Erling Haaland is the first player in history to score a brace against Brazil in the World Cup Round of 16.
*Haaland is the first player to score a brace against Brazil in the World Cup since Toni Kroos and André Schürrle did so for Germany in the famous 7-1 semi-final on 8 July 2014.
Overall, Haaland is the 8th player to score 2+ goals against Brazil in a World Cup knockout stage match.
*Haaland has extended his astonishing run to 14 competitive matches with scoring for Norway (totaling 27 goals in them).
*Haaland became the first European player to score in each of his first four World Cup matches since Christian Vieri (Italy) in 1998; and the first player overall to do so since James Rodríguez (Colombia) in 2014.
Only these 3 players (including Haaland) achieved this feat in the last 50 years; 13 players achieved it in the whole World Cup history.
*Haaland is the first player to score 7 goals in his debut World Cup since Grzegorz Lato in 1974 (also 7).
*Haaland is the first player to score 7+ goals in his first four World Cup appearances since Gerd Müller in 1970 (8).
Sandor Kocsis has scored (in 1954) the most goals (11) in his first four World Cup appearances in the competition’s history.
For curiosity, Cristiano Ronaldo and Leo Messi had only 1 goal each at this point of their World Cup careers.
*Three players scored 7+ goals in a single World Cup tournament (Mbappé 7, Messi 7, Haaland 7) for the first time in history.
*Haaland is the fourth player to score 4+ match-winning goals in a single World Cup edition, after:
Grzegorz Lato (Poland, 5 in 1974)
Salvatore Schillaci (Italy, 5 in 1990)
Gerd Müller (Germany, 4 in 1970)
*Haaland has scored seven goals from just 18 shots at the 2026 FIFA World Cup (39%).
This is the best conversion rate in a single World Cup since Gary Lineker in 1986 (six goals from 15 shots, 40%), among players with 15+ shots.