Haaland: Alessandro Nesta sums up genius of Ronaldo when asked about Man City star

Erling Haaland is just unstoppable right now.

Everybody knew that Manchester City were getting their hands on one of the standout talents of a generation when they signed him this summer, but even the most fanciful of optimists couldn’t have imagined him starting quite this well.

Besides, by the time that Haaland smashed his second goal of the evening past Copenhagen in mid-week, he found himself sat on a dizzying scoring record of 19 strikes in just 12 appearances.

Long gone are the premature criticisms on the back of his open goal miss in the Community Shield and in are the rounds of applause from all four corners of every stadium that he plays in.

After all, at the rate he’s going, not only will Haaland shatter Mohamed Salah’s record for the most goals scored in a 38-game Premier League season, but also the overall high watermark of 34 strikes shared by Andy Cole and Alan Shearer.

As such, the situation has become so absurd that anybody and everybody outside of the Manchester City dressing room has been left asking: how on earth do we stop this guy?

Well, fear not, because if anybody can offer advice on how to stop Haaland in his tracks then it’s the man who was recently voted as the greatest male centre-back of the 21st century: Alessandro Nesta.

An absolute juggernaut at the back who came from the same Italian school of defending as Paolo Maldini and Franco Baresi, the AC Milan icon made stopping centre forwards into an art form.

Therefore, we can safely say that he’s one of the best people on the face of this planet to ask that most bewildering of questions regarding Haaland and his unstoppable goalscoring streak.

Well, I guess we’re lucky then that COPA90 put this very topic to Nesta himself, leading to a