Erling Haaland: Borussia Dortmund's "goal machine" learning from Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Borussia Dortmund returned to winning ways in the Bundesliga in emphatic style on Matchday 22 with a thumping 4-0 win away to fierce local rivals Schalke, but it was Erling Haaland, and his first of two goals in particular, that grabbed the headlines. BVB have slid down the table in recent weeks, winning just one of their six league outings preceding Saturday's trip to Schalke, but served a reminder to their local neighbours that they remain the Ruhr region's top dogs, scoring twice in each half to condemn the struggling Royal Blues to a 15th defeat of the season. And Haaland was instrumental in that. Schalke had fought doggedly for much of the first half, but Jadon Sancho's opener on 42 minutes had given Dortmund a deserved lead before Haaland set his seal on the game on the stroke of half-time. Standing at 6'4" and weighing 194 pounds it is usually not a fair fight for defenders, but if not all players are created made equal, neither are all goals. Seeing Sancho receive the ball on the left-hand edge of the Schalke penalty area, Haaland instantly began to peel away from his marker, Bastian Oczipka. Sancho spotted it and floated a cross towards his teammate, who hung in the air before executing a sublime sideways scissors-kick with his left foot into the net from 16 yards. "It was a nice goal," Haaland told bundesliga.com "Obviously it was a good assist from Jadon.