Erling Haaland smashed yet another Champions League goalscoring record, leaving Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo in his dust
- Dortmund striker Erling Haaland became the quickest player ever to reach 20 Champions League goals on Tuesday.
- The 20-year-old scored twice Dortmund dumped Sevilla out of the competition.
- "He is a one-man wrecking crew," BT Sport pundit Owen Hargreaves said.
Borussia Dortmund striker Erling Braut Haaland became the quickest player in Champions League history to reach 20 goals as he scored twice to send Sevilla crashing out of the competition on Tuesday.
Dortmund drew 2-2 with Sevilla to progress to the quarter-finals 5-4 on aggregate.
Haaland scored his first of the night in the 35th minute when he prodded home Marco Reus' smart cut-back from close range.
The 20-year-old thought he had scored his second early in the second half when he bullied his way into the box and volleyed the ball into the top corner, however the goal was ruled out for a foul.
Fortunately, play was then pulled back for an earlier foul on Haaland in the box, which saw Dortmund awarded a penalty after a review from the video assistant referee (VAR)
Haaland stepped up and missed, but in another stroke of good fortune, Sevilla goalkeeper Yassine Bounou was adjudged to have moved too early off his line, giving Haaland a chance to re-take.
This time, he scored, giving Dortmund a 5-2 advantage in the tie.
Sevilla's Youssef En-Nesyri bagged a late brace to level the scores on the night, but the Spanish side was unable to find a late winner, which would have taken things to extra time.
Haaland's brace means he has now scored 20 Champions League goals in just 14 games in the competition, making him the fastest player ever to reach the landmark.
Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane had previously held the record, having scored 20 goals in 24 games.
Remarkably, it took Lionel Messi 40 games in the Champions League to reach the same tally, while it took Cristiano Ronaldo a whopping 56 games.
Haaland has now also scored more goals in the Champions League than greats of the game including Francesco Totti, Ronaldinho, Zinedine Zidane, and Ronaldo Nazario.
"Erling Haaland is like nothing I've ever seen. I just don't know how you stop him, he is like a machine," the former England striker Peter Crouch said after Dortmund's draw, speaking as a pundit on BT Sport.
"He is world class already, a proper number nine - I thought we had lost them. He has everything: pace, power, aggression. That conversion rate. You can't give him a sniff. His movement off the ball is brilliant. He just looks angry the way he plays football.
"We keep banging on about numbers but the numbers are scary. He is walking through players like they aren't there. It is frightening."
The former Bayern Munich and Manchester United midfielder Owen Hargreaves added: "This guy is a machine, a goal scoring machine; he makes it look so easy. He is ruthless, he barely misses the target.
"With Haaland up front, you don't need many chances. He is a one-man wrecking crew."