Erling Haaland and Bono set to renew rivalry as Manchester City face Sevilla in Super Cup

When Erling Haaland became the youngest, fastest man to 20 Uefa Champions League goals, he was angry. The landmark had been briefly postponed, his pride had been hurt, and his ears were burning.

The occasion, only Haaland’s 14th game in football’s principal club competition, was the second leg of a last-16 tie at his then club Borussia Dortmund, Sevilla the visitors. Dortmund were awarded a penalty to extend their aggregate lead to 5-2. It set up a heavyweight duel: hotshot Haaland against spot-kick specialist Yassine "Bono" Bounou.

The Norwegian, with a studied pause in his run up, aimed low to the Moroccan goalkeeper’s left. Bono parried on to the post, Haaland sprang to the rebound, and Bono saved again, brilliantly. But there was a follow-up – a roared remark from Bono right into the face of the 20-year-old Haaland. And still more follow-up when referee Cuneyt Cakir ordered the penalty be retaken because Bono had advanced a stride off his goalline.

Haaland, at the second attempt, again struck his effort low to the goalkeeper’s left. This time it worked. This time, he was roaring, barking the same word – the "jinx" phrase, "Kiricocho", that football folklore says will put off an opponent – at Bono that the keeper had shouted at Haaland. The episode went viral. It added to the piquant rivalry the phenomenal Haaland has built up with Sevilla.

Haaland’s Manchester City meet the Spanish club in Piraeus on Wednesday in the Uefa Super Cup, a novel date for City as first-time Champions League holders, but very familiar for Sevilla, whose seven triumphs this century in the Uefa Cup or Europa League mean they have become regulars.

Competitive in it, too. Sevilla have taken the contest into extra time in their last three such