Erling Haaland has scored in each of his last 14 competitive matches for Norway. An unofficial Solana-based meme token called $HAALAND has experienced trading-volume spikes that correlate with Norway’s match days throughout the tournament. Meanwhile, on the Ethereum-based fantasy football NFT platform Sorare, a unique 1-of-1 Haaland digital card sold for 265.1 ETH, somewhere between $600,000 and $750,000 depending on ETH’s price at the time. Neither asset has any official endorsement from the player himself.
The on-field matchup driving off-field speculation
Here’s the thing about Haaland versus Pickford: this will be their eighth meeting, and the numbers are brutal for the Everton keeper. Haaland has put 10 shots on target against Pickford across their prior encounters. Seven of those went in.
Those seven goals came primarily from Premier League clashes, where Haaland’s Manchester City have regularly tormented Pickford’s Everton. Now the stage is a World Cup quarterfinal.
The quarterfinal kicks off at 17:00 local time at Miami Stadium on July 11.
