After 28 years away, Norway, led by the irrepressible Erling Haaland, have started this World Cup with a bang and are already into the knockout stage.First they dismantled Iraq by a 4-0 scoreline, then at MetLife they dispatched Senegal, winning 3-2 thanks to two goals by Haaland and another by Marcus Holmgren Pedersen. Ismaila Sarr scored twice for the Africa Cup of Nations champions, including a very late goal that set up a nervy finale for Norway.Norway’s final match of Group I is against one of the tournament favourites France, who also have two wins from two. Both teams have already confirmed their place in the round of 32 and that game on Friday June 26 (3pm ET) will be a fascinating watch.The team that wins Group I will play a third-place team from Groups C, D, F, G or H in New York on June 30, while the runner-up will face the team that finish second in Group E in Dallas on June 30. That is likely to be Ivory Coast, who play Curacao in their final group match.Jack Lang, Jordan Campbell and Adam Crafton analyse the key talking points from Norway’s win at MetLife…Is Erling Haaland the scariest thing in football?It was like something from a horror film. A hulking figure, silently approaching, somehow unseen. Violins. A scream. These poor goalkeepers; they just can’t see the danger coming.Against Iraq, the victim was Jalal Hassan. Here it was Edouard Mendy, dallying, dallying, dallying on the ball until finally being brutalised by the monster of the penalty area.On this occasion, against all odds, Erling Haaland’s prey escaped him. After nabbing possession from Mendy, his shot cannoned back off the near post. It was, in its own way, a deeply shocking moment; Haaland does not miss chances like that. He sunk to the floor, pounded the floor, howled into the night air.Football is not an individual sport but Haaland is a competitor. He will have known that Lionel Messi had scored twice for Argentina against Austria and that Kylian Mbappe had found the net in the France-Iraq game (Mbappe scored another while this game was going on). When you average over a goal a game at international level, you expect to be in the conversation when the Golden Boot is handed out. And you expect to score when the goal is open in front of you.His thirst would be sated in the second half. Haaland slammed home Norway’s second then doubled up, redirecting a cross past Mendy. The goals took his tournament total to four. He is level with Haaland and just one behind Messi.