AASGAARD THE THIRD
Picture : Erling Haaland with Thelo Aasgaard - Norway is on fire !
Substitute’s pokers in World Cup Qualifying
Norway’s Thelo Aasgaard became the third player to score a poker as a substitute in the history of World Cup Qualifying. His predecessors are
Nuno Gomes (with Portugal in 2001) and Seule Soromon (with Vanuatu in 2007).
Soromon has even scored 5 goals as a sub (details in the table).
Remarkably, Aasgaard took only 26 minutes on pitch to score 4 times against Moldova on 9 September – while other two players able for such a feat used more game time after coming on.
In the current edition of World Cup Qualifying, only one player else has scored a hat-trick in the role of substitute: Jamie Maclaren (Australia) against Bangladesh (7-0) on 16 November 2023.
| WORLD CUP | QUALIFIERS | POKERS BY A | SUBSTITUTE | ||
| Nuno Gomes | Seule Soromon | Thelo Aasgaard | |||
| Portugal | Vanuatu | Norway | |||
| Goals | 4 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Date | 01/09/2001 | 30/08/2007 | 09/09/2025 | ||
| Opponent | Andorra | US Samoa | Moldova | ||
| Score | 7-1 | 15-0 | 11-1 | ||
| Came on | 33 min. | 46 min. | 64 min. |