Erling Haaland, a striker from Norway, has captured the admiration of a great number of people by breaking a record that has never been seen before in the history of football around the world. He has surpassed both Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

 

At Kenilworth Road, the match between Manchester City and Luton Town that took place recently in the fifth round of the FA Cup for the 2023–24 season did not contain any unexpected findings. Luton Town scored six goals thanks to striker Erling Haaland in the third, 18th, 40th, 55th, and 58th minutes, as well as Mateo Kovacic’s goal in the 72nd minute. Man City failed to capitalize on their greater strength and allowed Luton Town to score seven goals. Jordan Clark scored two goals for Luton Town in the 45th and 52nd minutes of the game. This was the only goal that Luton Town scored. After all was said and done, Manchester City emerged victorious over Luton Town by a dominant score of 6-2, so securing a spot in the quarterfinals of the 2023 FA Cup.

Haaland just set an unprecedented record

When it comes to Erling Haaland, the Norwegian striker responded to criticism with an outstanding and explosive performance, hitting five goals in the most recent triumph over Luton Town. In light of the fact that the most recent figures from Opta indicate that the Norwegian striker has established a record that has never been seen before in the history of football, surpassing both Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, this is an outstanding accomplishment. To be more specific, Haaland became the only player in the history of the game to score five or more goals in the same match by scoring them three times. In the year 2023, Haaland scored five goals for Manchester City, which led to a crushing 7-1 victory over Leipzig. During the 2019 U20 World Cup, Norway defeated Honduras by a score of 12-0, and Haaland was responsible for nine of the goals that Norway scored.

Meanwhile, Argentine star Messi has only scored 5 goals or more twice in his career, scoring 5 goals for Barcelona in a 7-1 win over Leverkusen in the Champions League in 2012 and a 5- friendly win over Estonia. 0 for Argentina in 2022. In addition, Haaland also surpassed Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored 5 goals against Granada in 2014 and against Espanyol in 2015.