Erling Haaland broke Manchester City’s single-season scoring record with his fifth goal of the game in their Champions League round-of-16 second leg win over RB Leipzig on Tuesday.
The 22-year-old Haaland now has 39 goals in all competitions for City this season, surpassing the mark of 38 set by Tommy Johnson during the 1928-29 season.
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The Norway international became the fastest player to reach 30 goals in the competition after beating the English champions 2–0 against RB Leipzig in the round-of-16 second leg at the Etihad Stadium.
At 22 years, 236 days, he is also the youngest player to reach that landmark, surpassing Kylian Mbappe, who was 22 years, 352 days when he scored his 30th Champions League goal.
But Haaland was not done then, scoring three more before 57 minutes to reach his total of five and put his side 6-0 up on the night before being substituted by Pep Guardiola shortly before the hour mark .
host moved win the match 7-0Kevin De Bruyne and Ilkay Gundogan also scored as Man City progressed to the quarter-finals with an 8–1 aggregate win.
A stellar night for Haaland put him in elite company as only Lionel Messi and Luiz Adriano have scored five goals in the same Champions League match. Haaland is only the third player to score 10 goals or more in a single European campaign, Messi having done it five times and Cristiano Ronaldo seven times.
Perhaps more notable is that Haaland still has 11 Premier League games to go, and the record collapse could continue with City also in the FA Cup and Champions League.
Twenty-eight of Haaland’s goals have come in England’s top flight, where he has an excellent chance to overtake joint single-season scoring leaders Alan Shearer and Andy Cole on 34 points each.