Erling Haaland put in a record-breaking performance against RB Leipzig as he scored five goals to guide Manchester City to the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
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Haaland became the youngest player to reach 30 Champions League goals, surpassing Kylian Mbappe, with his first in the 7-0 win and achieved the feat faster than any other player.
The Norwegian star also broke a 94-year-old record for the most goals scored by a City player in a single season.
But Haaland did not stop there as he became only the third player to score five times in one Champions League match.
The first player to do so was Lionel Messi for Barcelona against Bayer Leverkusen in 2012.
Erling Haaland joined an elite club as he became the third player to score five in a Champions League match
Argentine star Lionel Messi became the first to achieve the feat for Barcelona back in 2012
The World Cup winner put five past the German side during the second leg of their last-16 tie, which Barcelona won 7-1 to progress 10-2 on aggregate.
The only other player to achieve the feat is a little less recognisable.
In 2014, Messi’s record was matched by then-Shakhtar Donetsk striker Luiz Adriano, when the Brazilian scored five against BATE Borisov in their group stage match.
The Ukranian team beat the Belarusians 7-0 to progress to the round of 16, where they exited the competition following their own seven-goal drubbing at the hands of Bayern Munich.
Luiz Adriano is the lesser-known five-goal Champions League record holder alongside Messi and Haaland
Adriano joined Shakhtar in 2007, before he had spells at AC Milan, Spartak Moscow, Palmeiras and Antalyaspor.
The 35-year-old forward returned to his boyhood club Internacional during the January transfer window.
Haaland was substituted to a standing ovation in the second half of Manchester City’s 7-0 rout of Leipzig, through he would undoubtedly have liked to stay and add to his tally.
The Norwegian will have to surpass 48 Champions League goals to make it into the top 10 of the competition’s all-time scorers, but in his current form that landmark looks very much achievable.
source: dailymail.co.uk
