Haaland

Erling Haaland has stated he was bought by Manchester City to help them win a first Champions League after his five goals against Leipzig.

He described the win over Leipzig as a “kind of statement” in the Champions League but is far from satisfied and attention next turns to Saturday’s FA Cup quarter-final at home to Burnley. “I knew I was going to score goals because last season how many goals did City score [99]? When I saw them last season without a striker I was thinking when they were crossing the ball in: ‘Ah, I’d love to be there!’ I knew I would score a lot of goals.” “I think I can get better at everything. But the most important thing is the chances [coming] because that is what you want as a striker. [Champions League](https://www.theguardian.com/football/championsleague), they want to still win trophies,” he said.

John Stones has tipped Erling Haaland to continue to break records after the Manchester City striker's five-goal haul against RB Leipzig on Tuesday.

“I believe he (Haaland) really could do what he wants,” Stones said after the match. [Leipzig](https://theathletic.com/football/team/leipzig/), his 39 goals coming in just 36 matches. “That is Kevin’s quality and that is definitely why they (De Bruyne and Haaland) are here, playing at arguably the best club in the world, the best team in the world, and doing it on the biggest stages.”

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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'AMAZING': Despite being removed before the game ended, Haaland equaled the Champions League scoring record and set a new club record for goals in a season.

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Erling Haaland became the third player in Champions League history to score five goals in a game as he led Manchester City to an unrelenting 7-0 rout of RB ...

"A lot of it is being quick in the mind and trying to put it where the goalkeeper is not." "He scored goals with the foot and head, won second balls, deep runs. "He has a huge competitor mentality, he's there and yeah, scored five goals which is not easy." They lost to Real Madrid in last season's semis. Haaland pressured Leipzig's keeper into a poor clearance that fell to De Bruyne. To win 7-0 is amazing," he said.

Huge congratulations to Erling Haaland who is now City's all-time top scorer in a single season.

The former Real Madrid, Man Utd and Juventus star is also second with 16 from 2015/16. Haaland has also now scored 10 goals in the Champions League this season, the most by a City player in a single season in the competition. Haaland now has the single season record, although there were other individual accolades attained by Haaland in the victory, which saw us progress into the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the sixth consecutive season.

He's the third player to score five goals in a single UEFA Champions League game after Luiz Adriano in October 2014 (against BATE Borisov) and Lionel Messi in ...

[Liverpool](/football/team?id=364) as they suffered yet another defeat against [Real Madrid ](/football/team?id=86)after a solitary goal from [Karim Benzema](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/46858/Karim-Benzema). [UEFA Champions League ](/football/league/_/name/uefa.champions)was once again at its entertaining best with four more teams making it to the quarterfinals after positive results in their second-leg Round of 16 matches. Over the last 50 years, only Manchester United and Everton have had longer unbeaten streaks against Liverpool. Messi had his against Arsenal in the 2009-10 quarterfinals. 30 touches). For the first time since the 2005-06 season, three Italian teams have reached the Champions League quarterfinals in a single season (Inter Milan, AC Milan and Napoli). Osimhen's six career Champions League goals are the second-most by a Nigerian player (after Obafemi Martins: 9) and the most by a Nigerian-born player in a single season. Also, it took Haaland only 57 minutes to score five. Napoli made it to the Champions League quarterfinals for the first time in their history. Haaland has scored 39 goals this season in all competitions to break the Manchester City record for most goals in a single season (38 set by Tommy Johnson in 1928-29). He's the third player to score five goals in a single UEFA Champions League game after Luiz Adriano in October 2014 (against BATE Borisov) and Lionel Messi in March 2012 (against Bayer Leverkusen). [Manchester City](/soccer/team?id=382)'s [Erling Haaland ](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/253989/Erling-Haaland)smashed five goals in 7-0 drubbing of [RB Leipzig ](/soccer/team?id=11420)while [Inter Milan ](/soccer/team/_/id/110/internazionale)made it to the next round thanks to a better aggregate after a goalless draw against [Porto](/soccer/club/_/id/437/fc-porto).

Erling Haaland turned in another record-breaking performance as he scored five goals in Manchester City's emphatic victory over RB Leipzig in the Champions ...

“He is a gift to all of us. “If he achieves this milestone at 22, his life will be boring!” Guardiola said. That’s why even if I win the Champions League it will not compare for the fact that Julia Roberts came to Manchester and didn’t come to see us. She was photographed on the Old Trafford pitch after the game while her kids kicked a ball around. “And she went to visit Manchester United,” continued Guardiola as he warmed to his theme. “She came in the period where we were better than United, in these four or five years, right?”

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[Newcastle United](https://cominghomenewcastle.sbnation.com), maybe [Manchester United](https://thebusbybabe.sbnation.com) in the future — it can also be a whole lot of cash burning. But now that the balance sheet has stabilized, the club has struck back with a vengeance, landing top players like The question is what will happen in the future. [Bayern Munich](https://www.bavarianfootballworks.com) are one of the strongest clubs in Europe, competitively as well as fiscally. [Manchester City](https://bitterandblue.sbnation.com) and Paris Saint-Germain. “And investing a lot of money on a single player is always a big risk.