Overview
- On Sunday at MetLife Stadium Brazil and Norway meet in the World Cup last-16 with a quarter-final place on the line.
- Erling Haaland arrives as one of the tournament's leading scorers with five goals, making him Norway's primary threat and a Golden Boot contender.
- Carlo Ancelotti has dismissed talk of a bespoke 'anti-Haaland' plan and says he trusts his defenders' experience to handle Haaland's style of play.
- Arsenal centre-back Gabriel Magalhaes is expected to start and be a focal marker for Haaland after a club-level rivalry that has produced repeated on-field confrontations.
- The match carries individual stakes for Haaland's scoring race and team stakes for Brazil's progression, with the duel likely to shape tactical choices and the game's physical edge.