Erling Haaland set a new Champions League record

Erling Haaland set a new Champions League record after scoring five times against RB Leipzig in the return leg of UCL at the City of Manchester Stadium.

What record did Haaland break?

Haaland reached the 30-goal mark in 25 games -- quicker than anybody in the history of the competition. In fact, he is the youngest to do so as well, at 22 years and 236 days.

The former record was previously held by Ruud van Nistelrooy while the latter was held by Lionel Messi.

Haaland is the third player to score five goals in a single UEFA Champions League game after Luiz Adriano in October 2014 (Shakhtar Donetsk vs BATE Borisov) and Lionel Messi in March 2012 (Barcelona v Bayer Leverkusen).

How many goals has Haaland scored for Man City?

Haaland has cored 39 goals for Manchester City in all competitions this season.

Only 2 players have scored five goals at the knockout stages of the UEFA Champions League -- Lionel Messi against Bayer Leverkusen and Erling Haaland against RB Leipzig.

With five goals against Leizig, he broke the record for Tommy Johnson for most goals in a season. Tommy had 38 goals in the 1928-29 season.

What records does Haaland have?

The record of being quickest to 30 Champions League goal was previously held by Nistelrooy, who had achieved the feat in 34 games. The youngest to that many goal, on the other hand, was held by Lionel Messi, who was 23 years and 131 days old when he had 30 goals to his name in the competition.

He’s the first Premier League player to score five hat-tricks in a season since Harry Kane in 2016-17.

Haaland has now scored more Champions League hat-tricks (2) than Thierry Henry, Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney. Erling Haaland has now scored more Champions League goals (30) as Rooney, Antoine Griezmann, Samuel Eto’o and Kaka.

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