ERLING HAALAND produced arguably his most memorable performance yet against Paris Saint-Germain to extend his sensational hot streak.
A brace against the Ligue 1 champions on Tuesday night set Borussia Dortmund on course for the Champions League quarter-finals as their £18million star confirmed his love for the competition.
Having excelled in the group stages during his maiden Champions League season, Haaland is on ten goals in seven games – the quickest any player has ever reached double figures and the first teenager to do so in a single campaign.
His double was a match-winner – but this season he has dealt mainly in hat-tricks.
He hit a treble on his Dortmund Bundesliga bow and Champions League debut for former club RB Salzburg, and also netted four other hat-tricks for the Austrians.
He registered six of his eight assists while at Salzburg, including two in a 7-2 demolition of Hartberg in which, you guessed it, he scored a hat-trick.
In total, Haaland boasts 39 goals in just 29 appearances but he is no flat-track bully.
In every one of the five competitions he has featured in this year, from the Austrian and German cups to both leagues and in Europe, he is scoring at better than a goal-per-game.
For Dortmund, that equals out at a goal every 39.9 minutes after he broke a club record for notching on his debuts in the Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal and Champions League.
Such a rate surpasses his highly impressive rate of scoring every 52.3 minutes at Salzburg.
But it is not just in front of goal where the Norwegian is showing his talents.
During Tuesday’s clash with PSG, Haaland cleared a corner and proceeded to race into a counter-attack.
His 60-metre sprint up the pitch, afrom a standing start, was then clocked at 6.64 seconds – a staggering 0.3 seconds off the world athletics record set by Christian Coleman in 2018.
If these were Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo’s stats they would be impressive but the fact they’re from a teenager who hadn’t played in the Champions League until five months ago is simply staggering.
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Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
