The Norway national football team won 4-1 against Iraq in the World Cup match with two goals from Erling Braut Haaland. Haaland scored two goals and saved Norway in the World Cup match against Iraq. Norway won 4-1 after a slow start and a fantastic finish. Zlatan Ibrahimovic praised Haaland's performance. Martin Ødegaard received criticism, but delivered an important assist. Jærbuen equaled Kjetil Rekdal as the all-time Norwegian scorer in the World Cup context already in his World Cup debut when Norway beat Iraq on Wednesday night. At the end of VG's World Cup broadcast, Kjetil Rekdal sent a message to Haaland, congratulating him on equaling the record. Now Norway leads the World Cup group on goal difference ahead of France after one of three matches in the World Cup. It was of course the super striker who should score Norway's first World Cup goal in 10,220 days. And the next one. Ibrahimovic has himself been called a lion. Now Haaland also gets to be on the Swede's exclusive list. But even though one of the World Cup's biggest stars punished Iraq hard, Norway played sometimes very messy. Ten minutes after Haaland sat down in lotus position and celebrated his first World Cup goal, Iraq's biggest star also wanted to join the party. Aymen Hussein deservedly equalized for Iraq to 1-1 when he from seven meters pushed the ball into the net behind Ørjan Nyland after poor Norwegian defensive play. Four minutes later, Iraq's defense made a huge mistake, when the back kicked a loose ball back to their own goalkeeper. Last chance Jalal Hassan backed away instead of meeting the ball. That made it easy for Haaland to reach the ball first and score his second goal of the evening. Iraq had two dangerous chances before the break, but Norway led 2-1 at halftime. The experts were particularly disappointed with captain Martin Ødegaard. After the break, Ståle Solbakken changed from 4-4-2 to 4-3-3. Despite this, the game continued in the same vein as in the first half. Substitute Leo Østigård increased to 3-1 for Norway a quarter of an hour before full time. Seven minutes into overtime came the fourth goal for Norway. Erling Braut Haaland headed across to substitute Kristian Thorstvedt, who provoked an own goal from Aymen Hussain. Norway won 4-1 in the end and took an important victory in the World Cup group. Erling Braut Haaland was the man behind the victory and scored two goals. He was also praised by Zlatan Ibrahimovic for his performance. Norway now leads the World Cup group on goal difference ahead of France after one of three matches in the World Cup.