Erling Haaland is the man of records! The Norwegian striker was outstanding in the Manchester City-Leipzig Champions League Round of 16 meeting, scoring five goals.
In only 25 games played in the continent's most important competition, the 22-year-old has scored 33 goals. Haaland has broken the record of Rud van Nisterloit, who had scored 31 goals in 34 challenges. This is a record season for City's bomber. Unstoppable both in the Premier League and in Europe.
In total, he scored 39 goals this football year, 28 in the championship, 1 in the Carabao Cup and 10 in the Champions League.
In the current format of the Champions League, which started from the 1992-93 season, only 2 players had managed to score five goals in a single challenge. They are Luiz Adriano (in the Bate Borisov-Shakhtar challenge 2014-15) and Leo Messi in Barcelona-Bayer Leverkusen of the 2011-12 season.