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The young Norwegian star Erling Haaland has become the top scorer of the current UEFA Champions League season (2020-2021), after finishing matchday 16 of the “Champions League” tournament.
Erling Haaland, the “golden boy”, led his team, Borussia Dortmund, to qualify for the quarter-finals of the tournament, at the expense of his opponent, Sevilla, by scoring 5 goals, including a hat-trick in the first. Second leg (3-2) played at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuan stadium in the city of Seville, and two goals in the second leg (2-2) at the “Signal Iduna Park” stadium in Dortmund.
The 20-year-old Norwegian star has scored 10 goals in the current Champions League season so far, 4 goals ahead of his closest pursuers.
According to Opta Network, Haaland has scored 20 goals in the Champions League since his debut in September 2019.
And the Norwegian forward became the fastest player to reach 20 goals in the history of the tournament in 14 games, beating the Englishman Harry Kane, who reached the same number of goals in (24 games), Alessandro Del Piero (26 games) , and Rod Van Nistelrooy (27 games) and Filippo Inzaghi (28 games).
Haaland also became the youngest player to score in 6 consecutive Champions League games, at the age of 20 years and 231 days, surpassing 22-year-old Paris Saint-Germain star Kylian Mbappé in number of goals scored in the Champions League 19.
The following is the ranking of the top scorers in the UEFA Champions League after matchday 16 of the tournament:
1- Norwegian Erling Haaland (Borussia Dortmund) – 10 goals
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2- Álvaro Morata (Juventus) – Score 6 goals
Brazilian Neymar (Paris Saint-Germain) – 6 goals
Frenchman Olivier Giroud (Chelsea) – 6 goals
Moroccan Youssef Nassiri (Sevilla) – 6 goals
Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) – 6 goals
French Kylian Mbappé (Paris Saint-Germain) – 6 goals
8- French Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) – 5 goals
Egyptian Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) – 5 goals
Pole Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich) – 5 goals
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Sergio Oliveira (Porto) – 5 goals
Italian Shiro Immobile (Lazio) – 5 goals
Lionel Messi (Barcelona) – 5 goals
14- Italian Federico Chiesa (Juventus) – 4 goals
Spaniard Ferran Torres (Manchester City) – 4 goals
– Belgian Romelu Lukaku (Inter Milan) – 4 goals
Diogo Jota (Liverpool) – 4 goals
Norwegian Tokmak Nguyen (Ferencváros) – 4 goals
Hungarian Dominic Soboslai (Red Bull Salzburg) – 4 goals
Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus) – 4 goals
Bruno Fernandez (Manchester United) – 4 goals.
Source: Agencies
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