Club Brugge did not manage to keep Erling Haaland in check yesterday. With another 2 hits, he brushed up his already impressive statistics a bit more. Is he on track to break all goal records?
Which statistics did Haaland break / tighten yesterday?
- Haaland scored his 16th goal in his 12th match in the Champions League, good for an average of 1 goal per 66 minutes.
- Ruud van Nistelrooy and Roberto Soldado topped the list of players who hit 15 CL goals the fastest so far. They needed 19 matches for this, no less than 7 more than Haaland. Cristiano Ronaldo, the current top scorer of all time, only reached that number after 51 games.
- Haaland scored half of his goals in the Champions League against Belgian teams: 4 against Genk and 4 against Club Brugge.
- Haaland shot 91 times in his still young professional career. 70 times it became a goal.
- It was only the 6th CL match that Haaland played for Dortmund, but he is already entering the top 5 in club history. Only Koller (10), Aubameyang (15), Reus and Lewandowski (17 each) did better than the Norwegian’s 8 goals.
- Of his 13 matches for Dortmund this season, Haaland scored in 10, together good for 17 goals.
Teammate Bellingham: “It’s ridiculous”
“This player is a joke“Jude Bellingham, barely 17 himself, says about his team mate.” In his last 2 matches he has scored 6 times. And he made so many before that. “
“At the moment he is one of the best strikers in the world. It is fantastic to play with him.”
Some statistics at a glance
