Haaland reprimands Guardiola after equaling Lionel Messi’s Champions League goalscoring record

Erling Haaland he managed to score five goals in a knockout match in the Champions League, which he had already achieved Lionel Andres Messi, with the common denominator of Pep Guardiola as coach. The repóker obtained in Manchester City against Leipzig, for the rematch of the round of 16, was among the most sensational individual performances in history.

Pulga did it on 7 March 2012, in a 7-1 win against Bayer Leverkusen, for the second leg of the round of 16. The difference is that the 22-year-old Norwegian did it in 35 minutes, while the man from Rosario did it in 59, at 24 years old.

“I can always say that I managed Messi. Pelé, Maradona, Di Stéfano and Cruyff had the throne; now it’s his”Pep said at the time as manager of Barcelona. What did you say about Haaland on Tuesday? “Erling is incredibly talented. If he had played 90 minutes, who knows how much time he would have gotten?kept.

critique and vision

Shortly after the 7-0 (8-1 on aggregate) that deposited the Citizens in the quarterfinals, Haaland assured: “It’s a great evening. I am very proud to have scored 5 goals and to play in the Champions League. I love this competition, as everyone knows. ” And he added with a smile:” My head is a bit foggy, so I don’t remember the goals.

In front of the eyes of the former River Plate coach, Marcelo Gallardo, invited by his colleague Guardiola, Haaland revealed the conversation he had with the Catalan coach once he was replaced by the also former “millionaire” Julián Álvarez. “I would have liked to continue playing to score a double hat-trick”kept.

“My superpower is to score goals and that’s why I would have loved to score a double hat-trick after having scored five for Leipzig,” Halland told BT Sport after the match.

If he had scored those six goals that Guardiola “prevented” from scoring, then Haaland, at just 22, would have surpassed Messi and the Brazilian Louis Adriano in a Shaktar Donesk 7-BATE Borisov 0, in this case for the group stage.

“The truth is that I love the European Champions League and that’s why scoring five goals to win 7-0 seems incredible to me, even if my interest doesn’t go through being on the front page of the newspapers but because the team wins, because the truth is that I don’t even remember what those many were like, because actually converting them is my superpower, because I don’t really think about them, but I just do them,” he confessed.

“But it’s also true that everything is easier for me because we work hard and well on high pressure, especially at home, when we have to push the opponents, and we’re very good at recovering the ball high up,” concluded the club. player who scored five goals in just 35 minutes and was quickly replaced at 17 minutes by Álvarez, who will renew his contract with Manchester City this Wednesday until 2028.