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06/30 13:59 CDT Haaland nets game-winner as Norway wins a World Cup knockout
game for 1st time, beating Ivory Coast
Haaland nets game-winner as Norway wins a World Cup knockout game for 1st time,
beating Ivory Coast
By STEPHEN HAWKINS
AP Sports Writer
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) --- Erling Haaland scored the deciding goal in the 86th
minute and Norway won a knockout game at the World Cup for the first time,
advancing to the round of 16 with a 2-1 victory over Ivory Coast on Tuesday.
Three defenders converged on Patrick Berg as he moved into the penalty box with
the ball, and he kicked it over to a wide-open Haaland for his fifth goal in
three games at this year's tournament.
Antonio Nusa scored with a curling kick for Norway, which is in its fourth
World Cup and will next play five-time champion Brazil in the round of 16 on
Sunday at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
The match comes 28 years after what many considered the greatest win ever for
the Norwegians against Brazil.
Norway is playing in its first World Cup since that 1998 appearance, when the
team got to the knockout round only after scoring goals in the 83rd and 89th
minutes for an incredible 2-1 comeback win over then-reigning World Cup
champion Brazil in the group finale.
Arnard Diallo, who had kept Norway from taking a two-goal lead earlier in the
second half, evened the match with a left-footed kick in the penalty box in the
74th minute.
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