Manchester City 7-0 RB Leipzig (8-1 agg): Erling Haaland scores five goals as City head to quarter-finals
Erling Haaland rewrote the record books by scoring an incredible five times as Manchester City swept past RB Leipzig to reach the Champions League quarter-finals.
Haaland becomes the fastest and youngest player to reach 30 goals in Europe’s elite club competition.
He is also the youngest player to score five times in a single Champions League game, joining Argentina great Lionel Messi and Brazil striker Luiz Adriano as the only players to do so.
The 22-year-old now has 39 goals for the season in all competitions, the first City player to reach that figure in a single campaign. His five hat-tricks are three more than any other player in the big five leagues.
On any normal day, Ilkay Gundogan’s accurate low shot into the bottom corner would have earned praise. On that historic night, which was City’s 7-0 triumph over Schalke in 2019, that was nothing more than a footnote.
Based on this, no one, not even Real Madrid, will want to be paired with Pep Guardiola’s side in Friday’s round of 16 tie.
Legendary former club captain Vincent Kompany can only hope his former club have gotten that caliber of performance from their system when they take his Burnley side to the Etihad Stadium in the FA Cup on Saturday.
Haaland haunts former boss Rose
Leipzig coach Marco Rose was Haaland’s boss at Dortmund last season. No wonder he reacted in disbelief on the eve of the game when it was pointed out to him that some thought City were a lesser team with the Norwegian.
“It could become really, really, really good for him with Pep and Man City,” Rose replied.
He wished his words hadn’t turned out to be so insightful, so soon.
Leipzig were warned early on of the difficulties ahead when Nathan Ake dropped a long pass over their defense and within the space of half a dozen strides Haaland had sprinted out of their defense and had dark on goal.
Goalkeeper Janis Blaswich managed to prevent Haaland from opening the scoring – but it was his last success of the evening in this personal duel.
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RB Leipzig
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squad number21player nameBlaswich
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squad number39player namehenrichs
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squad number4player nameOrban
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squad number32player nameGvardiol
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squad number22player nameRaum
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squad number8player nameHaidara
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squad number44player nameKampl
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squad number27player namelove it
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squad numbertenplayer nameForsberg
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squad number17player nameSzoboszlai
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squad number11player nameWerner
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squad number2player nameSimakan
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squad number7player nameOlmo
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squad number9player namePoulsen
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squad number16player nameKlosterman
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squad number19player nameAndre Silva
Alignments
City of Man
Training 3-2-4-1
- 31Ederson
- 6Ake
- 3Ruben Dias
- 25AkanjiBooked at 77 mins
- 16RodriReplaced byPhillipsTo 63′minutes
- 8GundoganReplaced byMahrezTo 55′minutes
- 17De BruyneBooked at 67 mins
- 5RocksReplaced byGomezTo 64′minutes
- tenGrealishReplaced byFodenTo 55′minutes
- 20Bernardo Silva
- 9HaalandReplaced byAlvarezTo 63′minutes
Substitutes
- 2Walker
- 4Phillips
- 14The door
- 18Ortega
- 19Alvarez
- 21Gomez
- 26Mahrez
- 32Perron
- 33carson
- 47Foden
- 80Palm
- 82lewis
RB Leipzig
Training 4-2-3-1
- 21Blaswich
- 39henrichsBooked at 21 minsReplaced byKlostermanTo 80′minutes
- 4Orban
- 32Gvardiol
- 22Raum
- 8HaidaraReplaced bySimakanTo 63′minutes
- 44Kampl
- 27love it
- tenForsbergReplaced byAndre SilvaTo 63′minutes
- 17SzoboszlaiReplaced byOlmoTo 72′minutes
- 11WernerBooked at 34 minsReplaced byPoulsenTo 63′minutes
Substitutes
- 2Simakan
- 7Olmo
- 9Poulsen
- 13Nyland
- 16Klosterman
- 19Andre Silva
- 23Halstenberg
- 25Ba
- 34Nickish
- Arbitrator:
- Slavko Vincic
- Presence:
- 52,038
Live Text
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Game ends, Manchester City 7, RB Leipzig 0.
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Second Half ends, Manchester City 7, RB Leipzig 0.
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Aim! Manchester City 7, RB Leipzig 0. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) scores with a right footed shot from outside the box into the right top corner. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.
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To delay. They are ready to continue.
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Match delayed due to injury David Raum (RB Leipzig).
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Corner, Manchester City. Corner conceded by David Raum.
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Attempt saved. Manuel Akanji (Manchester City) header from the center of the box is stopped in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Bernardo Silva from a cross.
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Corner, Manchester City. Corner conceded by Willi Orbán.
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Attempt blocked. Julián Álvarez (Manchester City) right footed shot from the center of the six yard box is blocked.
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Replacement, RB Leipzig. Lukas Klostermann replaces Benjamin Henrichs.
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Failed attempt. André Silva (RB Leipzig) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Willi Orbán with a header.
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Manuel Akanji (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for dangerous fouls.
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Foul by Manuel Akanji (Manchester City).
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Dani Olmo (RB Leipzig) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
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Sergio Gómez (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
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Foul by Dani Olmo (RB Leipzig).
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Foul by Bernardo Silva (Manchester City).
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Dani Olmo (RB Leipzig) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
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Replacement, RB Leipzig. Dani Olmo replaces Dominik Szoboszlai.
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Foul by Ruben Dias (Manchester City).
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