Owen Hargreaves says Erling Haaland could lead Borussia Dortmund to Bundesliga title – but he still wouldn't get in this Bayern team

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Owen Hargreaves believes that Erling Haaland can help Borussia Dortmund challenge for the Bundesliga title - but doesn’t think the Norwegian would get into Bayern Munich’s starting line-up.

Dortmund sit four points behind Bayern in the race for the German title, with the two teams set to meet at Signal Iduna Park next Tuesday. Haaland fired BVB to an impressive 4-0 win over Schalke on their return to action, to take his tally for the 2019/20 season to an astonishing 41 goals in just 34 appearances.

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Chris Flanagan
Senior Staff Writer

Chris joined FourFourTwo in 2015 and has reported from 20 countries, in places as varied as Jerusalem and the Arctic Circle. He's interviewed Pele, Zlatan and Santa Claus (it's a long story), as well as covering the World Cup, Euro 2020 and the Clasico. He previously spent 10 years as a newspaper journalist, and completed the 92 in 2017.