City will fly into the quarterfinals with a historic hand from Haaland

His goalscoring output has dropped significantly since the World Cup in Qatar but Erling Haaland ended any kind of debate with a historic display against Leipzig, which now enters the Champions League records in its own right.

Manchester City is for the sixth consecutive season in the quarterfinals of Europe’s top competition after endorsing Leipzig 7-0 at the Etihad, after a 1-1 first leg, but the victory, undoubtedly merited, is remains an anecdote before Haaland’s recital, author. of five goals in the Barça-Bayer Leverkusen match of 2012 that will always be remembered for the small hand of Leo Messi.

Haaland, at the age of 22 years and 236 days, is already sitting at the same table as the Argentine. The Norwegian has 33 goals in just 25 Champions League games and surpassed Leo’s record, who is still the youngest to reach 30.

From 6-3 to 7-0

Leipzig, who have already beaten the Etihad 6-3 in 2021, strengthened their midfield by combining Marco Rose and Kevin Kampl, but their plan was ruined by Haaland’s juice. As in the first leg, City completely dominated from the first minute and surrounded the German goal without a break.

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Janis Blaswich saved Haaland’s 1-0 in the 10th minute after reaching a long ball with his devilish pace. But it didn’t take long for the Norwegian to open the scoring by converting a penalty awarded on the orders of VAR when he made slight contact with the ball on the arm of Benjamin Henrichs after a header from Rodri.

Two goals in two minutes

It was the 21st minute and Haaland needed just two more to make it 2-0 with a chipped header after Kevin De Bruyne’s shot from the edge of the area deflected off the crossbar. The Belgian again played at a high level, Ilkay Gündogn also shone in his own light but they were overshadowed by a foreigner.

Neither the ‘bundle’ of Ederson, who survived a suicidal exit from his area to cut off the advance of Konrad Laimer, or Leipzig’s attempted reaction could not quench the thirst of Haaland, who condemned the tie as a discount in the first half by pushing the ball into the net that went over the goal line after Rúben Dias headed it against the post.

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Two more in four minutes

In the second half Gündogan made it 4-0 after cutting with quality and crossing the net. It was almost the only concession to his teammates from Haaland, who returned to the stand and scored two more goals in four minutes by pushing individual rebounds from a desperate Blaswich into the net before the avalanche that came to him.

Haaland, the top scorer in this Champions League with 10 goals, beating Mohamed Salah, would have scored more, but Pep Guardiola replaced him to receive an ovation from an Etihad who surrendered to his young idol , who finished eight times in the 60 minutes he played, all of them between the three sticks.

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De Bruyne completed a historic 7-0

Already on discount, De Bruyne had his level of fame with a majestic hit inside that went close to the squad. A fine goal that was also historic as it equaled City’s biggest win in Europe. In 2019, he also endorsed another German team, Schalke, 7-0 in the Champions League round of 16.

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City of Manchester: Ederson; Stones (Sergio Gómez, m. 63), Akanji, Rúben Dias, Aké; De Bruyne, Rodri (Phillips, m.64), Gundogan (Mahrez, m.55); Bernardo Silva, Grealish (Foden, m.55); and Haaland (Julián Álvarez, m.64).

Leipzig: Blaswich; Henrichs (Klostermann, m.80), Orban, Gvardiol, Raum; Laimer, Kampl, Haidara (Simakan, m.63); Szoboszlai (Dani Olmo, m.72), Forsberg (André Silva, m.63); Werner (Poulsen, d.63).

Goals: 1-0. Haaland, m. 22; 2-0. Haaland, m. 24; 3-0. Haaland, m.45+3;
4-0. Gundogan, m. 49; 5-0, Haaland, m.54; 6-0. Haaland, m.57 and 7-0. De Bruyne, m.91.

Referee: Slavko Vincic (Slovenia). He advised De Bruyne (m.67) and Akanji (m.77) for Manchester City and Henrichs (m.21) for RB Leipzig.

Spectators: 52,038 at Etihad Stadium (Manchester)

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