Erling Holland never ceases to amaze. Everything you would expect from the Norwegian, one of the stars of the recent market and wanted by almost all of Europe’s big clubs, could well fall short in light of the results. The man from City of Manchester is a scoring machine, this Wednesday at Champions League he did it again and added to a personal account which is just hard to believe. Numbers that make an impact and that almost surpass the records of the two biggest cracks of this era of football: Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
In the fight against Copenhagen Denmark for the third day of the group stage in UCL 2022-2023Haaland converted the first two goals of Pep Guardiola’s team that began to shape the landslide that would materialize shortly after.
So he uploaded his personal account to 28 goals in the tournamentwith the exquisite detail that he transformed them in just 22 games. Some facts you shared @2010MisterChip show that it is something he has never seen before: for example, He broke the goalscoring record that players like Rivaldo or Luis Suarezwho reached this number 73 games. Although the Brazilian was not a scorer, the Uruguayan is. And one of the best of this era.
The comparison between the goals of Haaland, Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo in the Champions
Haaland’s 28 goals in 22 Champions League games is truly insane. Messi, for example, needed 47 games to reach this number. CR7 is even stranger: in his first 22 Champions League games, he didn’t score a single goal. In fact, he went up to 27 games without scoring. This did not prevent him later from pulverizing nets and reaching the 140 shouts in 183 games (0.76 average). Leomeanwhile, they accumulate 127 in 159 games (0.79).
What is scary about Haaland, apart from what he has already achieved, is what he could achieve. If he maintains this colossal pace, he will match Ronaldo’s record when he reaches his 114 matchesi.e. in just over 100.
Like to put this more into context, you can get a parameter that isn’t completely unreasonable. in theirs 22 years oldwith Guardiola’s City fully in pursuit of that first Champions League that they have yet to achieve, it is expected that, if healthy, Haaland will be a big star and goalscorer for many seasons to come.
If he maintains his current goal average (1.22 goals per game), and if we take as a reference 10 games played per season, which equates to one group stage and two knockout stages (eighth and fourth, goals in more than possible for the City), in 10 Champions Leagues he would reach the top of the all-time scorers table with an amount that Ronaldo claimed 19 editionsalmost double.
Of course, it’s adventurous and it’s just a game. But if Leo and CR7 managed to hold on for nearly two decades, why couldn’t Haaland, the world’s new goalscoring monster?
