Erling Haaland scored two goals in the final eleven minutes on Sunday, and just like that, Brazil's World Cup was over. Norway won 2-1 in East Rutherford, and for a country that hadn't reached the knockout stage past the Round of 16 since 1998, that scoreline means a lot more than three points.

For most of the match, this didn't look like a night for history. Brazil created the better chances early, out-shooting Norway on expected goals in the first half despite Norway controlling more than 65 percent of possession. Bruno Guimarães even had a golden chance from the penalty spot in the 14th minute after a VAR review flagged a foul on Matheus Cunha. Norwegian goalkeeper Ørjan Nyland, 35 years old and the oldest player on the roster, dove left and turned it away.

That save turned out to be the hinge the entire match swung on.

Haaland had been quiet for most of the afternoon, but his physical presence kept causing problems in the Brazilian back line, and in the 79th minute, it finally paid off. He rose above the defense and headed home the opener. Eleven minutes later, with the game still hanging by a thread, he collected a pass from substitute Andreas Schjelderup just outside the box and rifled a shot into the bottom corner to make it 2-0. Neymar converted a stoppage-time penalty to make the final score respectable, but by then Brazil's fate was already sealed.

Haaland's two goals pushed his tournament total to seven, tying him with Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappé atop the Golden Boot race. He's now scored in 14 consecutive appearances for Norway, a run of 27 goals over that stretch that speaks to just how automatic he's become at the international level. "Maybe this will write history in Norway," Haaland said after the match. "This is just an insane day. It's one of the most insane days in Norwegian history."

He's not wrong. Norway had lost their only two previous Round of 16 appearances, back in 1938 and 1998, and had failed to qualify for a World Cup at all since that '98 tournament. Sunday's win sends them to the quarterfinals for the first time ever on the men's side, a genuinely historic moment for a soccer nation that's spent the better part of three decades on the outside looking in.

For Brazil, the result stings in a familiar way. This marks the sixth straight World Cup in which a European team has knocked them out, and the earliest exit for the five-time champions since 1990. Carlo Ancelotti was brought in specifically to end a championship drought that's now stretched to 24 years, and instead his side heads home in the round of 16, undone by a team they'd never lost to in four previous meetings.

Norway will face England in the quarterfinals on Saturday in Miami, a match nobody outside Scandinavia expected to be circling on the calendar when this tournament began. For a country that's waited nearly three decades to matter again on this stage, that alone is a story worth savoring.