Socceroo Mo Touré Scores Fourth Goal In A Week As Sizzling Run For Norwich Continues

Australian striker Mo Touré has earned comparisons to a young Erling Haaland, aft he bounced backmost from a missed punishment to proceed his sizzling goalscoring tally pinch a ninth extremity successful conscionable 10 games since joining English Championship broadside Norwich.

Touré’s 4th extremity of nan week, pursuing a 2nd hat-trick of his short Norwich profession connected nan weekend, was a rocket that went successful disconnected nan underside of nan barroom and group up a 2-1 triumph complete Derby County.

The triumph intends nan Canaries proceed their emergence up nan array since nan 22-year-old signed from Danish Superliga broadside Randers FC successful January.

The erstwhile Adelaide United player’s red-hot shape successful beforehand of extremity comes arsenic a timely boost to nan Socceroos coach, Tony Popovic, arsenic he prepares to tackle a tough group containing hosts nan USA, Paraguay and Turkey astatine this year’s World Cup.

Before opening nan scoring conscionable aft nan half-hour people astatine Carrow Road connected Tuesday night, Touré had a aureate opportunity to adhd to his tally from nan punishment spot, but his debased effort was repelled by Derby keeper Jacob Widell Zetterström.

Rather than allowing that miss to impact nan remainder of his performance, Touré put immoderate disappointment to 1 broadside – a mindset that impressed Norwich coach, Philippe Clement, who said being capable to retrieve successful specified a measurement was “a powerfulness of nan beardown strikers”.

“I’ve seen besides strikers tremble and starting to uncertainty [themselves],” Clement said. “It’s not been nan lawsuit pinch Mo until now. There will beryllium a infinitesimal erstwhile he has respective games that he doesn’t people – that’s portion of being a striker.

“I saw galore years agone a young Haaland playing successful Salzburg and I was truthful impressed pinch him, astir really he prepared his game. In nan warmup, they were giving crosses and he was missing chances and past he was really angry. When he scored, he was for illustration winning nan Champions League – truthful happy.

“But you felt nan occurrence successful nan boy. And I said to my staff, I deliberation he was 17 aliases 18 aliases something, ‘this feline is going to person a really large future.’

“You spot that’s besides a quality. It’s not only method and beingness qualities, but you request to person nan intelligence qualities to beryllium a bully subordinate and Mo is showing really bully worldly there.”

Touré, calved successful Guinea arsenic a Liberian exile earlier moving to Australia arsenic a baby, burst connected to nan Championship segment successful February pinch a hat-trick successful his first start, having opened his relationship disconnected nan chair connected his Norwich debut.

Another extremity successful nan FA Cup followed earlier a comparatively barren agelong of 5 outings without scoring was spectacularly ended astatine nan weekend, erstwhile he scored a second-half hat-trick arsenic Norwich came from down to hit Bristol City.