Bayern Munich striker Harry Kane has scored two targets within the Champions League wanted to equal an unimaginable Lionel Messi document.
The Tottenham Hotspur legend confronted Atalanta on Wednesday night, with Bayern 6-1 forward on mixture after an emphatic first-leg win away from dwelling.
Bayern had primarily certified for the quarter-final of this season’s competitors, however Vincent Kompany was not anticipated to go away out his most essential gamers.
Kane bagged a few targets towards a beleaguered Atalanta, reaching 50 Champions League targets in solely 66 video games – the identical quantity it took Lionel Messi, and 25 fewer than Cristiano Ronaldo.
You’ll not be shocked whenever you see who hit half a century the quickest. Listed below are the present high 10 gamers who reached 50 Champions League targets within the fewest variety of matches, with Kane now becoming a member of Messi in third.
Mo Salah additionally scored his fiftieth Champions League objective on the identical night, although he took 97 video games to succeed in that complete.
9= Mo Salah – 97 video games
The Egyptian king turned the twelfth participant to succeed in 50 targets along with his strike towards Galatasaray and the very first African to hit that quantity.
Thierry Henry and Thomas Muller are the opposite two gamers to hit the 50-goal mark who’ve been pushed out of this high 10.
9= Raul – 97 video games
Having received the Champions League on three separate events, Raul is likely one of the most embellished gamers within the competitors’s historical past.
He loved his most prolific marketing campaign within the Champions League in 1999-00, the place he scored 10 targets in 15 appearances, together with a objective within the closing towards Valencia.
8. Cristiano Ronaldo – 91 video games
Whereas Ronaldo is the outright high scorer within the historical past of the Champions League with 140 targets, he wasn’t the quickest participant to succeed in 5o targets.
Previous to transitioning right into a goalscoring machine in his late twenties, Ronaldo was a dynamic winger who appeared extra taken with doing stepovers than discovering the again of the web.
In his first 75 Champions League matches, he *solely* scored 32, averaging a objective each 194 minutes. Since that time, he scored 108 targets in his final 108 UCL video games, scoring each 90.19 minutes on common.
His document of 140 targets within the competitors may very well be damaged sooner or later, by a sure Nordic Robotic, however there’s little question that CR7 will all the time be often called ‘Mr Champions League’.
7. Karim Benzema – 88 video games
Like Ronaldo, Benzema has additionally received the Champions League trophy a ridiculous 5 occasions.
Nevertheless, his most iconic run within the competitors was considered one of his final in 2021-22, the place he scored 15 targets in 12 video games to fireside Actual Madrid to the trophy.
In complete, it took the Frenchman 88 video games to succeed in the 50-goal landmark, a determine which has solely been bettered by 5 gamers. For now.
6. Kylian Mbappe – 79 video games
Mbappe scored his fiftieth Champions League objective in 2024 and it took him 79 matches to succeed in that milestone, turning into the second-youngest participant within the course of.
The Frenchman is considered one of solely two gamers on this checklist to have by no means truly received the competitors, however he has time on his facet.
5. Robert Lewandowski – 77 video games
In terms of goalscoring information, you’ll normally discover Lewandowski’s identify someplace close to the highest of the checklist.
The Polish ahead has been persistently scoring targets in Europe since 2011-12 and remains to be going robust at present on the ripe previous age of 37.
He’s presently considered one of solely three gamers to have scored greater than 100 targets within the historical past of the competitors.
3= Harry Kane – 66 video games
His first Champions League targets got here again in 2016 when Tottenham couldn’t make it out of the group stage; his forty ninth and fiftieth targets got here in Bayern Munich colors because the German membership despatched Atalanta.
He scored a ridiculous 11 targets in 13 video games within the 24/25 marketing campaign.
3= Lionel Messi – 66 video games
The Argentine wizard scored 10 or extra targets in 5 separate UCL campaigns and left Europe in 2023, having scored 129 targets in 163 video games.
Messi was notably prolific throughout his early years because it solely took him 66 video games to succeed in the 50-goal milestone, a document which has solely been overwhelmed by two gamers, and was equalled by Kane on Tuesday.
2. Ruud van Nistelrooy – 62 video games
Up till just lately, Van Nistelrooy held the document because the quickest participant to ever attain 50 targets within the Champions League.
The Dutch ahead solely wanted 62 video games to succeed in the landmark determine and his document stood robust from 2007 to 2025.
Regardless of retiring in 2012 as one of many competitors’s high scorers of all time, the previous Man United and Actual Madrid star by no means managed to get his palms on the trophy.
1. Erling Haaland – 49 video games
Not solely did Haaland break the document for the fewest video games wanted to succeed in 50 targets, however he’s completely obliterated the earlier document.
The 25-year-old made historical past along with his scoring document and he’s now projected to interrupt Ronaldo’s all-time document by the point he retires.
As issues stand, Haaland is averaging a objective each 80.82 minutes within the UCL, which is totally absurd.
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