
In the end, it took just 36 minutes of the most eagerly anticipated Premier League debut in years for Erling Haaland to open his account in English football.
It was hardly the brash, bulldozing, “I have arrived!” moment some might have envisioned, no trail of destruction, no bodies left shrivelled in his wake, no bursting out from a stage trap door like some one-man 90s boyband.