Norway’s Erling Haaland became the third player in history to score five goals in a Champions League game on Tuesday in Manchester City’s 7-0 thrashing of Leipzig in the second leg of the 8th.
In addition to being in the Champions’ top scorers in 2022/23 with 10 goals, the 22-year-old striker has 22 goals from penalties, 24, 45+2, 53 and 57 minutes. , signed a beckoning that put him on par with Brazil’s Luis Adriano and Argentina’s Lionel Messi, who have shared the brand since the past decade.
The 35-year-old Brazilian, currently playing for Internacional, scored five goals on 21 October 2014 for Ukrainian Shakhtar in a 7-0 thrashing of BATE Borisov in the group stage of the 2014/2015 season. .
The Argentine had previously achieved this record for Barcelona on March 7, 2012, with a landslide 7-1 victory over Bayer Leverkusen in the second leg of the 2011/12 round of 16 round of 12. .
Haaland even aimed to become the first player in Champions history (i.e. since 1992/93) to score six goals in a game, but coach Josep Guardiola decided to send him off in the 63rd minute to launch Argentine Julián Alvarez.
With 33 goals in 25 games in the Millionaires competition, Haaland also became the player who needed the fewest games to reach three dozen goals in the Champions League and the youngest player to reach that mark at 22 years and 236 days. – and, in addition to 10 for Citizens, he already had 13 for Borussia Dortmund and 10 for Salzburg.
The striker now has 39 goals in 36 official matches for Manchester City, who signed him at the start of the season from Borussia Dortmund.
Gundogan and De Bruyne scored other goals in City’s victory over Leipzig, who thus reached the Champions League quarter-finals after losing 1–1 in Germany in the first leg of the eighth.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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