(Manchester) Erling Haaland equaled the Champions League record with a five-goal performance on Tuesday, propelling Manchester City into the quarter-finals of the continental competition with a 7-0 victory.
The Norway international became the fastest player to reach 30 goals in his career when he put the England champions 2-0 ahead against RB Leipzig in the second leg of their last-16 tie.
At 22 years and 236 days old, Haaland is also the youngest player to reach this milestone, breaking the mark of Kylian Mbappe, who was 22 years and 352 days old when he scored his 30th goal.H A goal in the Champions League.
But Haaland, who opened the scoring from a penalty kick in the 22nd minuteH Minute, he had just started dating his wife. He completed his hat-trick before the end of the first half, then returned to the attack in the 54th minuteH and 57H minutes of play.
Lionel Messi and Luiz Adriano are the only other players to have scored five goals in a Champions League match.
Haaland was substituted after 63 minutes, giving Manchester City a 6-0 lead. Man City eventually won the home-and-away series by an aggregate score of 8-1.
FC Porto 0 Inter Milan 0
Inter Milan reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the first time in over a decade thanks to a 0-0 draw that gave them a 1-0 aggregate win against FC Porto.
The Portuguese club came close to scoring late in the game, which would have forced extra time. Their players hit the post and crossbar in a matter of minutes during stoppage time.
Scoring opportunities were rather scarce at the Estadio do Dragao and Inter did what was necessary to confirm their ticket to the next stage. The Italian club will qualify for the quarter-finals for the first time since its elimination from the group stage as the defending champion in 2011.
Romelu Lukaku scored the goal that made the difference at the San Siro in Group A.
