Erling Haaland continues to break records in the UEFA Champions League

With his 5 goals, Haaland joins Messi and Luiz Adriano as the only ones to score 5 goals in a Champions League match.

The young Norwegian will look back on the match against RB Leipzig as one of the highlights of his career when he one day has to think back on his football life.
An evening where he again broke several records and delivered a top performance which secured Manchester City a quarter-final place in the Champions League.

In this article, we have looked at which records Erling Haaland has broken after his great performance against RB Leipzig.

5 goals in 57 mins makes him the fastest player to achieve this and the crazy thing is he only used 30 touches to score his five goals.

The only players to score five goals in a Champions League game: 

▪️ Erling Haaland vs. Leipzig (57 mins)
▪️ Luiz Adriano vs. BATE Borisov (82 mins)
▪️ Lionel Messi vs. Leverkusen (84 mins)

Before he was the youngest and the player who had spent the fewest matches to score 20 goals in the UCL, now he has also broken both records with 30 goals.

The fastest player ever to reach 30 goals in the Champions League with 25 games:

▪️ Erling Haaland (25 games)
▪️ Ruud van Nistelrooy (34 games)
▪️ Robert Lewandowski (36 games)
▪️ Lionel Messi (48 games)
▪️ Neymar (49 games) 

Erling Haaland is the youngest player to score 30 UCL goals, breaking Kylian Mbappé's record

The Youngest player to reach 30 goals in the Champions League:

▪️ Erling Haaland (22 years and 236 days)
▪️ Kylian Mbappe (22 years and 352 days)
▪️ Lionel Messi (23 years and 131 days)
▪️ Raul Gonzalez (24 years and 91 days) 

With 28 goals in the Premier League and now 10 goals in the Champions League, the powerful striker is having an absolutely insane season, not forgetting that this is his 5th hat-trick of the season.

Haaland’s record in the UEFA Champions League:
25 games
33 goals
3 assists

Haaland can be the decisive piece for Manchester City and Pepe Guardiola that makes them finally win the Champions League title that they miss.