Erling Haaland

Erling Haaland, whose five goals in Tuesday's 7-0 triumph against Leipzig propelled Pep Guardiola's team into the quarterfinals.

And Thierry Henry questioned him over his reaction to being replaced, the 22-year-old said: “I told him [Guardiola] when I went off, ‘I would love to score a double hat-trick’. In fact, at 22 years and 236 days, he is the youngest player to have done so. “There is so much potential in this team and I think still we can improve a lot in the game, how we play. I missed a lot of chances. Within a single minute, he struck when he diverted Kevin De Bruyne’s effort into the goal after it had hit the crossbar.

Erling Haaland savaged a sorry RB Leipzig while Kevin De Bruyne was also in the mood in a record-breaking evening in the Champions League for Manchester ...

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Haaland scored five goals in Man City's 7-0 win over RB Leipzig. Inter reached the Champions League quarter-finals for first time since 2011.

Now we will play with a lot of confidence.” Haaland pressured Leipzig’s keeper into a poor clearance that fell to De Bruyne. He found the net again 19 seconds after the kickoff. [March 14, 2023] Haaland became the youngest player to reach 30 Champions League goals, surpassing Kylian Mbappe. [March 15, 2023]

Nobody in the Champions League has ever scored more goals in a single game, and there may just be no better player to lift City to the summit of European soccer ...

In my mind, I think I always have to look for the next [opportunity] and to try to reach more and stay hungry. But now they have something they've never had -- the best pure striker in the world. "In the first half I could have scored more," he said. Haaland and Messi are the only two to do it in a knockout round. Nobody in the Champions League has ever scored more goals in a single game, and there may just be no better player to lift City to the summit of European soccer. He joins Lionel Messi for Barcelona in 2012 (coached by Pep Guardiola) and Luiz Adriano for Shakhtar Donetsk in 2014 as the only players to score five.

Manchester City routed RB Leipzig 7-0, their biggest victory in the Champions League to move to the next round of the competition. Erling Haaland netted a ...

"A lot of it is being quick in the mind and trying to put it where the goalkeeper is not." City forward [Erling Haaland](https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/football/story/premier-league-manchester-city-1-0-crystal-palace-erling-haaland-arsenal-title-race-2345617-2023-03-12) looked in menacing touch as he became only the third player in the history of the competition to score 5 goals in a single game. "He has a huge competitor mentality, he's there and yeah, scored five goals which is not easy." Haaland pressured Leipzig's keeper into a poor clearance that fell to De Bruyne. To win 7-0 is amazing," he said. [By India Today Sports Desk](/author/india-today-sports-desk): Manchester City routed RB Leipzig 7-0 in their second-leg fixture in the [Champions League](https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/football/story/real-madrid-not-taking-three-goal-advantage-over-liverpool-for-granted-carlo-ancelotti-2346634-2023-03-14) Round of 16 on Tuesday, 14 March.

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Haaland also joined Lionel Messi and Luiz Adriano, who are the only other players to have scored five goals in a match in Champions Leaue.

He had his second and his 30th in the Champions League when heading in a rebound in the 24th after Kevin de Bruyne hit the bar. Haaland opened the scoring from the penalty spot in the 22nd minute when Benjamin Henrichs was adjudged to have handled in the box after a video review. Haaland also joined Lionel Messi and Luiz Adriano, who are the only other players to have scored five goals in a match in Champions Leaue.

The lanky robot scored five goals against RB Leipzig and I'm sure Rose was unhappy.

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Pep Guardiola explained why he denied Erling Haaland the chance to score a double hat-trick for Manchester City in the Champions League.

I didn't know about Messi with Leverkusen (when he scored five against them in 2012), but I make a substitution because normally when the game is over we want them to play. When you're involved in a game defensively, the ball comes to score goals you're more clever, more precise. Once we break the holding midfielder we have to be quicker. He became the third player to [ score five goals in a Champions League fixture after Lionel Messi (](https://www.goal.com/en/lists/man-city-player-ratings-rb-leipzig-erling-haaland-kevin-de-bruyne/bltd4265dee46807ed4)for Barcelona against Bayer Leverkusen) and Luiz Adriano (for Shakhtar Donetsk against Bate Borisov). [scored five in Manchester City's 7-0 win](https://www.goal.com/en-ae/lists/haaland-not-human-winners-losers-man-city-terminator-rb-leipzig/blt41233baf8679b29d) to ease them into the quarter-finals. He wouldn't have a target to reach in the future.