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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While there have been legitimate questions over how Haaland has adapted into his new team, his goal record has never been in question and, if it felt laughable last month for Jamie Carragher to suggest the Norwegian was at the wrong club, it is a comment that everyone at City is rolling on the floor over. His second goal showed just how much City have rubbed off on him.

As RB Leipzig kicked off looking to get back into the game after feeling hard done to by a penalty - interestingly enough, the soft penalty given for handball was against Benjamin Henrichs, who seemed to use his arms without being punished in the final moments of the first leg - they played the ball back to goalkeeper Janis Blaswich only to find Haaland closing him down rather