It was inevetable, and it’s starting, slowly but surely – Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland are under the spotlights as future stars in the football world and they are compared. The football universum always needs that epic battle between two players. Wheather it’s Pele vs Maradona, or Messi vs Ronaldo, or Mbappe vs Haaland, fans around the world need that rivalry and last night’s Champions League games was a perfect opportunity for it. Both players had great games, and scored a brace, the Frenchman against Juventus and the Norwegian against Seville.Erling Haaland scored 25 Champions League goals in his first 20 games.◉ 12 – Karim Benzema◉ 11 – Robert Lewandowski◉ 8 – Lionel Messi◉ 0 – Cristiano RonaldoOnly six fewer than the top four #UCL scorers of all-time managed combined. 🤯 pic.twitter.com/bQQUWAc9Zl— Squawka (@Squawka) September 7, 2022 And for Arsenal legend Thierry Henry, his fellow countryman has the advantage at the moment, mainly due to his versatility, even thou Haaland scored 25 goals in his only 20 games in the Champions League.„Mbappe can create and finish. Haaland doesn’t create. He finishes. Mbappe can play on the right and on the left. He can play in the middle. Haaland can only play in the middle. He is a magnificent player and with him they can win the Champions League last year against Real Madrid. If it was him at the end of those chances that they missed, they will have been focused on scoring one or two. For now, Mbappe is still my vote“ Henry told CBS.Mbappe scored when needed and Donnarumma saved three points against JuveBack in England, trio of fomer footballers Rio Ferndinand, Owen Hargreaves and Joleon Lescott all praised Haaland, and all three predicted that he will score around 40 games this season, breaking Mohamed Salah’s 38 goals record in 2017. Hargreaves predicted 45 goals in all competition, Ferdinand 41 and Lescott 40. And there is one big advantage Haaland has over everybody else – he is not going to the World Cup.„The one thing he’s got in his favour is the World Cup. He’s not going to the World Cup so in his mind he’ll be thinking: ‘I’m rested, I surely have to get more opportunities to get more goals’. I would definitely say that’s one thing in his favour in terms of getting to those numbers that we’re talking about“ Ferdinand said to BT Sports.UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE – MATCHDAY 1Wednesday 19.45: (1.50) Ajax (4.60) Rangers (7.00)19.45: (2.25) Eintr.Frankfurt (3.50) Sporting (3.35)22.00: (3.80) Napoli (3.60) Liverpool (2.05)22.00: (1.85) Atl.Madrid (3.50) Porto (5.00)22.00: (3.40) Club Brugge (3.60) Leverkusen (2.20)22.00: (1.07) Barcelona (15.0) Plzen (35.0)22.00: (4.10) Inter (3.80) Bayern (1.92)22.00: (1.53) Tottenham (4.30) Olympique Marseille (7.00)Tuesday Dinamo Zagreb – Chelsea 1-0 (1-0)/Orsic 13/Dortmund – Copenhagen 3-0 (2-0)/Reus 35, Guerreiro 42, Bellingham 83/Salzburg – Milan 1-1 (1-0)/Saelemaekers 40 – Okafor 28/Celtic – Real Madrid 0-3 (0-0)/Junior 56, Modric 60, Hazard 77/RB Leipzig – Shakhtar 1-4 (0-1)/Simakan 57 – Shved 16, 58, Mydruk 76, Traore 85/Sevilla – Man City 0-4 (0-1)/Haaland 20, 67, Foden 58, Dias 90+2/Benfica – Maccabi Haifa 2-0 (0-0)/Silva 49, Grimaldo 54/PSG – Juventus 2-1 (2-0)/Mbappe 5,22 – McKennie 53/***odds are subject to change
