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Manchester Evening News
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Simon Bajkowski

Erling Haaland repeated Lionel Messi feat to start Man City party vs RB Leipzig

"He's Erling Haaland and he'll take the **** again, ahhhhh wooooooooooooooooo."

Manchester City fans may want to rework the lyrics to one of their popular songs at the minute to include their Nordic meat shield after he made a mockery of a difficult Champions League tie to send City roaring into the quarter-finals. Goals number 35, 36, 37, 38, and 39 for the season all arrived in a one-sided second leg to reinforce his status as one of the greatest talents in world football obliterating record after record.

It is worth pausing for a moment on this 22-year-old, who surpassed Kylian Mbappe to become the youngest player to score 30 Champions League goals - and also did it in the quickest time, just 25 appearances. This was his fifth hat-trick of the season and with his fifth (fifth!) goal of the night he smashed Tommy Johnson's record from the 1928-29 season to take the all-time record for City goals in a single campaign.

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