Norwegian Erling Haaland this Tuesday became the third footballer in history to score five goals in a Champions League match, in Manchester City’s thrashing against Leipzig (7-0), in the second leg of the round of 16.
Besides being isolated at the top of the Champions 2022/23 scorers, with 10 goals, the 22-year-old striker, who scored on 22, from a penalty, 24, 45+2, 53 and 57 minutes, signed a manita with which he the Brazilian Luiz Adriano and the Argentine Lionel Messi, who have shared the brand since the last decade.
Haaland’s summary #ChampionsELEVEN pic.twitter.com/BHlmt2be32
– ELEVEN Portugal (@ElevenSports_PT) March 14, 2023
The 35-year-old Brazilian, currently playing for Internacional, had scored five goals on October 21, 2014 for Ukrainian side Shakhtar Donetsk, thrashing BATE Borisov (7-0) in the group stage of the 2014/2015 edition.
The Argentinian had already achieved that record before, for FC Barcelona, on March 7, 2012, in a solid victory over Bayer Leverkusen (7-1), in the second leg of the round of 16 of the 2011/12 competition .
In fact, Haaland aimed to become the first player in the history of the Champions League (that is, since 1992/93) to score six goals in a match, but coach Pep Guardiola chose to let him go in the 63rd minute of the game. field, to launch the Argentinian Julian Alvarez.
With 33 goals in 25 games in the millionaire league, Haaland also became the player who took the fewest games to reach the three dozen goals in the Champions League, as well as the youngest to reach that goal — at 22 years and 236 days — and, next to the 10 hairs citizensalready counted 13 for Borussia Dortmund and 10 for Salzburg.
Manchester City RB Leipzig
Looks like we need to scale this up, don’t we, Haaland? ⭐️#UCL #ChampionsLeague #ChampionsEleven #MCIRBL #RatersGonnaRate pic.twitter.com/o3LvUBmhr1
– Goal (@_Goalpoint) March 14, 2023
The attacker now has 39 goals in 36 official games for Manchester City, who took over from Borussia Dortmund at the start of the season.
Gundogan and De Bruyne scored the other goals in City’s win over Leipzig to qualify for the quarter-finals of the Champions League after drawing Germany 1-1 in the first leg of the round of 16.
Source: DN
