After his most recent UEFA Champions League brace for Manchester City, Erling Haaland has shattered a competition record held by his French counterpart Kylian Mbappe.
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Having gone on a mini-goalscoring drought in Europe's premier club competition, Haaland has now continued where he left off last season, as far as his streak of breaking records is concerned, following his brace against Young Boys on Wednesday night.
The Scandinavian sensation's double on the evening means that he now has 37 goals in his UCL career, breaking Mbappe's record of being the youngest player ever to reach that milestone in the process.
According to the Daily Mail, the Paris Saint-Germain attacker did it when he was 23 years and 295 days old, while Haaland reached in 199 fewer days at 23 years and 96 days old.
This only adds to the list of Champions League records the Leeds-born striker already has to his name.
Despite failing to find the back of the net since the semi-finals last season before Wednesday night, the Norway international had bagged 12 competition goals prior to that.
During the 2022/23 iteration of the tournament, he also became the youngest and quickest player ever to reach 30 competition goals, as well as the first player since 2014 to score five goals in a single match. The ex-Borussia Dortmund man also holds the record for the youngest player to score 20 UCL strikes.
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Haaland already has 11 goals in all competitions to his name this season, and while that is a great haul this early in the campaign, given that he managed 52 strikes last term, the expectations for him have now been raised.
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