Will Haaland surpass Cristiano as the top scorer in the Champions League?

33 goals in 25 Champions League games. 39 of the 36 he has played since arriving at City. He made 86 of the 89 official matches he played between 2020 and 2022 with Borussia Dortmund. All this with only 22 years. With these figures, I’m not the one to discover that Haaland He is a phenomenon rarely seen in the history of the king of sports, but he who appreciates the voracious hunger sent by the Norwegian. A quality that, apart from skills, you either have or you don’t.

and that he always owned Cristiano Ronaldo, Besides. However, the Portuguese started much later than the Scandinavian cyborg, at least at the directorial level. The five-time Ballon d’Or winner failed to score in his first 25 Champions League appearances and it took him 76 games to reach his 33 goals. Haaland. It is true that the final years of the ‘Bug’ were from another world, with seasons of 15, 16 and 17 goals in Europe, but he showed something on countless occasions Haaland it is certain. Being an alien.

His average on the date suggests that he is, and of course it cannot be definitively ruled that he is capable of doing this, but in reality it is more difficult than it may seem at first glance. We’re talking about reaching the number of 141 goals, and those are big words, even talking about a ‘bug’ like Erling Haaland. He has 108 to go. He is 22 years old and if he maintains his current goalscoring average, he will reach 141 goals before turning 30, okay, but the simple fact of maintaining it is very complicated. Many things can happen along the way. Even if not Haaland It will get rid of bad spells and surely at some point what works now will not be enough. In the last decade and a half, the performance of Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo in a certain way we have been misused to understand as normal what is really abnormal. Haaland He is still gifted, yes, but let’s see how far he can go.