It was Phil Foden who was Manchester City’s big player in the Champions League match in the 4-1 win against Borussia Dortmund, where Erling Haaland – now as expected – walked off the pitch with at least one more goal on his account. This brings the 25-year-old to 54 Champions League goals., the tenth highest scorer in the CL. Now it has been calculated when Haaland is expected to overtake Cristiano Ronaldo.
CR7 stands with 141 CL goals, with Lionel Messi on 129. Both play outside the UEFA region and are unlikely to return. This means that Haaland is 87 goals short of going all the way to the top of the Champions League history.
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So how long will it take, before Ronaldo is expected to see a Norwegian light bang take his place at the top of the throne?
With an average of 1,038 goals per game in Europe’s premier competition, that means that – if he continues at the same pace – he will need to play a total of 137 games to score 142 goals. That means 85 more Champions League games.
Numbers are numbers, and football is something completely different from predictability. However, we take this calculation to heart and look forward to this historic day when a Norwegian player will be considered the indisputable Champions League king.
