Two-goal Haaland again the super sub as Dortmund thrash Cologne

 New signing Erling Braut Haaland scored another two goals after again coming off the substitutes‘ bench as Borussia Dortmund kept their Bundesliga title hopes alive with a 5-1 drubbing of Cologne on Friday.
Haaland came on in the 65th minute after Mark Uth had netted for Cologne, to wrap up Dortmund's win with a double strike following goals from Raphael Guerreiro, Marco Reus and Jadon Sancho, ending Cologne’s four-match winning streak.
Haaland had scored a hat-trick after coming on during the second half on his debut in last week’s 5-3 win at Augsburg, and it was almost a repeat performance from the 19-year-old Norwegian striker on his home debut, Deutsche press agency (dpa) reported.
First he mopped up in the 77th minute with an emphatic close-range finish and then scored from the tightest of angles in the 87th to make it another fairy-tale appearance from the bench and complete a convincing Dortmund victory.
"It's of course wonderful for him," Reus told streaming service DAZN. "That's why we signed him."
Dortmund coach Lucien Favre said: "Very satisfied, we could have scored even more goals. It was totally deserved."
On Haaland, Favre said: "He scored three in Augsburg and now two in his first game at home, and the goals were very important as well."
And keeper Roman Buerki quipped: "It's a great pity he's already waning. Three goals, now two goals - I hope it's not just one in the next game."
Dortmund move to third, four points behind leaders RB Leipzig, who are at Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday.
Champions Bayern Munich, level on 36 points with Dortmund, meanwhile greet fifth-placed Schalke, and Moenchengladbach, on 35 points, are at home to Mainz.
Favre again decided Haaland, who arrived in the winter break from RB Salzburg, was not quite fit enough to start for a full 90 minutes following a knee problem.
Favre then saw his side get off to the fastest of starts when Guerreiro opened the scoring in 51 seconds, taking a pass in the box from Sancho before Reus made it two on the half hour in a goal allowed following video review.
It was the second of two reviews by VAR in the first half. In the first, a penalty awarded to Dortmund for a tackle on Achraf Hakimi by Sebastian Baunow was turned into a free-kick just outside the area. However, the Cologne defender, who looked to have cleanly played the ball, was booked for the challenge.
Then Reus saw his goal initially disallowed for offside but the video review showed the forward was just on the last defensive line when he took a long ball from Mats Hummels, who had also seen a header from a corner come back off the bar.
Cologne keeper Timo Horn prevented a third with his leg when Thorgan Hazard was put through by Guerreiro but a third followed in the 48th minute when Sancho took a pass from Reus and hammered the ball into the roof of the net.
Dortmund keeper Roman Buerki saved point blank from new signing Uth to thwart Cologne, but Uth struck his first goal for the club with an angled shot in the 65th minute.
Haaland replaced Hazard with the Cologne goal and almost scored with his first action but miscued his shot, which was then blocked by Rafael Czichos.
However Haaland could celebrate when he finished from close range after Guerreiro's shot was saved by Horn and got his brace when taking a pass from Axel Witsel, rounding Horn and finding the net almost from the goal-line.