Champions League: Haaland scored five goals for Manchester City

With an exceptional night for Erling Haaland, who scored five goals, Manchester City swept Leipzig of Germany 7-0 and managed to reach the quarterfinals of the Champions League. In the other game of the day, Inter managed to defend in Portugal the 1-0 draw that they had achieved at home and with the 0-0 draw with Porto, they also advanced to the quarterfinals after 12 years.. Real Madrid-Liverpool (Fox Sports) and Napoli-Eintracht FranKfurt (ESPN and Star+) will complete this Wednesday the round of 16 series with an advantage for Madrid and Napoli who won their games in the idea.

Haaland equaled the historical mark of five goals in a match that Lionel Messi had reached on March 7, 2012 for Barcelona against Bayer Leverkusen (7-1 was the final result) and the Brazilian Luiz Adriano had registered on October 21, 2014 in the 7-0 win by Shakthar Donetsk of Ukraine against Bate Borisov of Belarus.

Haaland’s account skyrocketed twenty minutes into the first half with a penalty goal and increased three minutes later when he collected a rebound off the crossbar with a header after a very strong shot from the Belgian Kevin DeBruyne. In the discount of the initial stage, a header from the Portuguese defender Ruben Dias He hit the left post, ran along the entire line and Haaland converted it by entering the far post.

With the series fully resolved (they had drawn 1-1 in the first leg in Germany), the second half was played by protocol. The German Ilkay Gundogan made it 4 to 0 after four minutes and again Haaland at eight and twelve minutes brought the figures to a scandalous level. Five minutes later, the phenomenal Norwegian gunner left his place to Julián Alvarez and at 45, De Bruyne closed the account in seven after a match without equivalences.

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Everything was much more balanced between Porto and Inter. Lautaro Martínez played the entire game for the Italian team, but had to dedicate himself more to defensive tasks, pressing the exit of the rivals, than to develop his trade as a scorer. Inter deployed a very cautious scheme and dedicated himself to taking care of the goal difference against Porto’s will and few ideas.

The great emotions of the night at the Do Dragao stadium came in extra time. The Dutchman Dumfries took a shot from the Spanish Iván Marcano on the line and then in the same play, a header from the Iranian Taremi hit the right post and another header from the Serbian Marko Grujic crashed into the crossbar. Inter thus celebrated a hard-fought classification that puts it in the same line as Milan, its traditional rival, also placed in the quarterfinals of the Champions League.

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