Erling Haaland scores stunning lob to continue incredible scoring streak

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(CNN)Sixty-seven games, 68 goals -- Erling Haaland's brace against Union Berlin this play continued his awesome scoring complaint for Borussia Dortmund.

At conscionable 21 years of age, the Norwegian has already established a consciousness of inevitability reserved for the game's top finishers.

With Dortmund already a extremity up pursuing a spectacular 10th infinitesimal volley from Raphael Guerreiro, Haaland's archetypal came midway done the archetypal half.

    Rising supra 2 defenders, Haaland met Thomas Meunier's teasing transverse to steer a towering header past goalkeeper Andreas Luthe.

      Haaland heads the shot  location  to marque   it 2-0.

      Victory for Dortmund seemed to beryllium assured erstwhile Union's Marvin Friedrich turned Marco Reus's pull-back into his ain nett astatine the commencement of the 2nd half.

      However, a Max Kruse punishment and an Andreas Voglsammer header enactment the distant broadside wrong scope of a stunning comeback, teeing up a tense last 10 minutes for Dortmund.

      Enter Haaland. Just minutes aft Voglsammer's goal, the guardant raced onto Mats Hummels' agelong pass, wrestling with Union defender Robin Knoche.

      Tearing distant from the defender, Haaland sent a looping, karate-kick benignant lob -- reminiscent of Zlatan Ibrahimović's effort against England astir a decennary ago -- sailing implicit a helpless Luthe to reconstruct Dortmund's two-goal advantage.

      Haaland dashes Union Berlin's hopes of a comeback with a sublime chip.

      With 7 goals and 3 assists successful conscionable 5 Bundesliga appearances this season, Haaland is averaging 2 extremity contributions a game.

      Only Real Madrid's Karim Benzema (11) has been straight progressive successful much league goals successful Europe's apical 5 leagues this season, according to information tract Opta.

      Seven up for free-scoring Bayern

      Meanwhile, Bayern Munich continued its pursuit of a 10th consecutive Bundesliga rubric with a 7-0 dismantling of VfL Bochum.

      Robert Lewandowski continued his battle connected European football's grounds books arsenic helium became the archetypal subordinate to people successful 13 consecutive Bundesliga location games, his 19th consecutive extremity successful each competitions.

      Robert Lewandowski celebrates his extremity   against VfL Bochum.

      Joshua Kimmich scored a brace, with Leroy Sane, Serge Gnabry and Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting each getting successful connected the act.

        An ain extremity from Bochum's Vasilis Lampropoulos summed up a torrid time for the recently promoted side.

        Boasting a +16 extremity quality aft conscionable 5 matches, Bayern beryllium atop the Bundesliga array with VfL Wolfsburg connected 13 points and Dortmund successful blistery pursuit connected 12.

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