Erling Haaland defies logic and sets new Champions League record

Erling Haaland has defied each forms of logic and has acceptable a caller goalscoring grounds successful the Champions League successful the process.

Following his extremity successful Manchester City's opening fixture of the 2025/2026 Champions League play against Napoli, Norwegian guardant Erling Haaland took his tally successful the tourney to 50 goals successful 49 games, making him the fastest subordinate to deed the extremity milestone.

Erling Haaland has present surpassed the long-standing grounds antecedently held by erstwhile Manchester United forward Ruud van Nistelrooy, who required 62 matches to scope the milestone of 50 goals successful the UEFA Champions League.

In comparison, Lionel Messi, widely regarded arsenic 1 of the top players successful shot history, needed 66 games to deed the aforesaid mark. However, the Argentine icon inactive holds a abstracted distinction; helium remains the youngest subordinate ever to people 50 Champions League goals, achieving the feat astatine the property of 24 years and 284 days portion playing for the Spanish side, Barcelona.

Haaland, who is presently 25 years old, however, holds the grounds of being the footballer to execute this feat with a lesser fig of fixtures played successful the tournament. By doing so, the Norwegian striker has moved up of French superstar Kylian Mbappé, who had been 2nd connected the all-time “quickest to 50” list.

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