One day after Kylian Mbappé dazzled the football world with an impressive hat-trick against FC Barcelona, Erling Haaland took center stage in a record-breaking performance against Sevilla in a La Liga round of 16 clash. Champions Wednesday night. Haaland scored two goals to help Borrusia Dortmund beat Sevilla 3-2 in the first leg. Also read – Sevilla vs Dortmund: ‘We need you’ – Twitter on fire as fans plead with Erling Haaland to join their teams
It was the home team that took the lead in the seventh minute through Jesús Suso, but the visitors were quick to draw with Mahmoud Dahoud launching a curling shot in the 19th minute. That followed Haaland finding the back of the net twice. in the space of 16 minutes to make it 3-1 and apparently sealed the fate of the tie. Also read – Porto vs Juventus: Cristiano Ronaldo goes blank when the Serie A giants beat 2-1 in the Champions League
However, Luuk de Jong scored a late goal to cut the deficit to just one, giving his team a chance to nullify it and possibly outdo their opponents when the second leg is played. However, the night belonged to Haaland, who became the first footballer to record at least 17 goals in his first 13 Champions League appearances. Also read: Kylian Mbappe gives his Hat-Trick jersey to UFC star Khabib Nurmagomedov | Watch video
With his second goal of the tournament, the Norwegian improved that count to 18 goals. Thus he became the fastest footballer to have scored 10 Champions League goals for a single team, in just seven appearances, surpassing the previous record set by Roy Makaay of Bayern Munich.
The 20-year-old is also the fastest to score five and ten goals in European competition.
“I felt like I don’t know if you can say it’s because of motivation or passion or whatever, but today we were more in line,” Haaland said. DAZN. “It was good. It was not good to let in two goals, but it is good to score three goals away and take them with us. We had a good plan. Edin (Terzic) has been good and I have been talking to him a lot. He said today would be my I play and I would have my chances and I did, so it was a major win.
“We have to recover quickly now. We have a great game ahead of us this weekend. We have to bring this positive mentality to that game because we have to win that one too, but it was very good to win tonight in Spain, “he added.
