Ole Gunnar Solskjaer did not play the main role at Manchester United, but did when he got the opportunity from the bench. The “supersub” status goes far beyond Manchester United and the Premier League, last summer givemesport named Solskjaer the biggest super reserve in football history. In Spain, it is a Norwegian national team player who follows Solskjaer’s path to the history books.
Last season, Alexander Sørloth scored his way into La Liga’s second highest scoring player for Villareal. Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone pointed to the Norwegian striker and said: I want him. Sørloth signed for Atletico, and is now one of Simeone’s big attacking weapons. Alex Ferguson saved Solskjaer for the second half, Simeone often does the same with Sørloth.
Against Barcelona on Sunday, Atletico coach held Sørloth back until half an hour remained of the game, the 29-year-old took less than ten minutes to score to make it 2-0. This was almost as expected, because Sørloth had before that scored against Barcelona in five games in a row. With Sunday’s goal, he matched Cristiano Ronaldo’s record of scoring in six consecutive games against Barcelona (for Atletico, Villareal and Real Sociedad).
Although Atletico inexplicably lost the game 2-4, Sørloth has scored himself as the big super reserve in La Liga.
In La Liga, no player has scored more goals as a substitute than Sørloth this season, the Norwegian international is only 1 goal away from entering La Liga history as the highest scoring substitute in a season.
The Premier League had Solskjaer, La Liga has Sørloth.
