{"id":250829,"date":"2026-07-01T00:58:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T00:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/erling-haaland-adds-to-incredible-2026-fifa-world-cup-with-historic-norway-winner\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T00:58:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T00:58:59","slug":"erling-haaland-adds-to-incredible-2026-fifa-world-cup-with-historic-norway-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/erling-haaland-adds-to-incredible-2026-fifa-world-cup-with-historic-norway-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Erling Haaland adds to incredible 2026 FIFA World Cup with historic Norway winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/soccer\/players\/erling_haaland\/720458\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Erling Haaland<\/a> has already had an epic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/soccer\/topics\/fifa_world_cup\/17265\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2026 FIFA World Cup<\/a>, and thanks to his goal in the 86th minute against Ivory Coast in the Round of 32, it isn&#8217;t over yet.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Norway advanced to the Round of 16 with a 2-1 victory over Ivory Coast, and Haaland once again starred, scoring his fifth World Cup goal to give <em>Landslaget\u00a0<\/em>its first knockout stage win in four World Cup appearances.<\/p>\n<p> The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/soccer\/teams\/manchester_city\/17450\" class=\"yard_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manchester City<\/a> striker broke a 1-1 tie off a pair of perfectly placed passes, with Oscar Bobb connecting with Patrick Berg on a leading pass into the box, then Berg showing nice touch on the short cross to Haaland, who tapped the ball past Ivory Coast goalkeeper Yahia Fofana. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/soccer\/articles\/erling_haaland_adds_to_incredible_2026_fifa_world_cup_with_historic_norway_winner\/s1_13132_44012644\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erling Haaland has already had an epic 2026 FIFA World Cup, and thanks to his goal in the 86th minute against Ivory Coast in the Round of 32, it isn&#8217;t over yet. On Tuesday, Norway advanced to the Round of 16 with a 2-1 victory over Ivory Coast, and Haaland once again starred, scoring his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-250829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}