Champions League: Erling Haaland's Extraordinary Record Behind Manchester City's Perfect Victory

Manchester City player, Erling Haaland. (Photo: Twitter @ManCity)

JAKARTA - Manchester City went berserk. The English Premier League club crushed RB Leipzig with a score of 7-0 in the second leg of the last 16 of the Champions League, Wednesday, March 15, early morning WIB.

This victory led them to qualify for the quarter-finals with an 8-1 aggregate. As is known, Leipzig was able to withstand City's ferocity in the first leg with a score of 1-1.

However, the Bundesliga club was made helpless when competing at the Etihad Stadium. Leipzig had to swallow the bitter pill seven times without reply in front of his opponent's supporters.

Erling Haaland starred in this match. How not, the Norwegian scored five goals!

Ok, remind us again, @ErlingHaaland 👀How many goals did you score tonight? 🤔🔵 7-0 ⚫️ #ManCity pic.twitter.com/Cp9BVuX5Kx

— Manchester City (@ManCity) March 14, 2023

The striker scored a hat-trick in the first half, including two goals in two minutes. He then added a collection of two more goals after the second half began.

The action led him to a number of records. Now with 39 goals for the season, Haaland's gains saw him take a record one-season goal held by City legend Tommy Johnson, which was scored in 1928-29.

In addition, with the 10 goals he scored, he became City's most goalscoring player in the Champions League in a season.

The former Borussia Dortmund player is also the youngest and fastest player to score 30 goals in the Champions League.

Then, Haaland matched the achievements of Lionel Messi and Luiz Adriano who were able to score five goals in one Champions League match.

5 - Erling 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). Playground. pic.twitter.com/0eWf7fsxgv

— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) March 14, 2023

Back to the game, City's other two goals were scored by Ilkay Gundogan in the 49th minute and Kevin De Bruyne in the 90+2 minute. The last name also scored an assist for one goal scored by Erling Haaland.