“City” defeated “Leipzig” 7-0 (3-0) at home, celebrating the success with 8-1 in the sum of two matches.
Holland opened the scoring in the 22nd minute with a 11-meter penalty kick, the ball flying into the lower right corner of the goal.
In the 24th minute, the Norwegian striker was the first to receive the rebound and headed it into the goal.
Just before the half-time whistle, Holland was rewarded for his determination with his third goal in the second minute of half-time stoppage time. The ball bounced by the goalkeeper Janis Blazvich rolled along the goal line, and after the defender tried to kick it further from the goal, the ball hit Holland and flew into the net – 3:0.
In the 49th minute, Ilkay Gindogan scored a goal, who played Amadou Haidar on the edge of the penalty area and sent the ball into the lower right corner of the goal, – 4:0.
After that, Holland scored two goals within three minutes. In the 54th minute, he hit the goalkeeper’s bounced ball twice into the left corner of the goal, but three minutes later he was the first again to the goalkeeper’s bounced ball, sending it into the left corner.
Maybe Holland would have become the record holder of the Champions League in the course of the evening, but in the 63rd minute the 22-year-old Norwegian was replaced. Thus, he became the first European to score five goals in one match in the Champions League.
Since 1992, only Argentinian Lionel Messi has scored five goals in a Champions League match, who helped “Barcelona” beat Bayer Leverkusen 7-1 in the second leg of the Round of 16 in Barcelona on March 7, 2012, and Brazilian Luis Adriana, who scored a goal in 2014. On October 21st, he helped “Shakhtar” Donetsk beat BATE Borisov 7-0 in the away match of the group tournament.
The second minute of the compensation time of the second half also became fatal for the players of “Leipzig”, 7-0 with a shot outside the penalty area by Kevin de Brujn.
Meanwhile, the players of “Inter” Milan managed to save a draw in the second match of the round of 16 of the UEFA Champions League at Porto on Tuesday and entered the quarter-finals.
“Inter” saved a goalless draw away from home against “Porto” and won 1:0 in the sum of two games.
In a game with poor scoring moments, the home team attacked, but failed to score, and “Porto” remained in the minority in the seventh minute of stoppage time, with Brazilian forward Pepe receiving his second yellow card of the game.
Lisbon “Benfica” has already reached the quarter-finals, which defeated “Club Brugge” 7:1 in the sum of two matches, “AC Milan”, which was superior to “Tottenham” “Hotspur” 1:0, “Chelsea” of London, which defeated “Club Brugge” 2:1 Borussia Dortmund won, and Bayern Munich beat Paris Saint-Germain 3-0.
32 teams played in the main tournament of the UEFA Champions League. The two best teams of each subgroup made it to the round of 16, while the third-placed team continued their season in the UEFA Europa League elimination tournament.
“Real” Madrid beat “Liverpool” 1:0 in the final of the 2021/2022 season competition in Paris.
This season, the final is scheduled for June 10 in Istanbul, Turkey.
