Haaland is expected to surpass Ronaldo’s Champions League goalscoring record in about 10 years

If he maintains his current season goals average Haaland should go beyond cristiano ronaldo 15 years later. If he can maintain the same performance as last season, he will reach the Portuguese record after 9 seasons (14 seasons in total compared to the Portuguese’s 19 seasons)

The 32nd edition of the UEFA Champions League returns, without Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi for the first time in 21 years. The two players who have dominated European football for decades and set new records that are difficult to break will be absent.

However, due to lack of CR7 and Messi now play for Al Nasr and Inter Miami respectively, opening up possibilities for players still in Europe. The current top scorer in the Champions League is Robert Lewandowski with 92 goals so far. Thomas Müller ranks second (in the overall ranking, taking into account players who no longer play in the league, he ranks seventh) with 53 goals.

Sambafoot (responsible for the Sambafoot Gold Award, this year is the 16th edition, the nominees include Vinicius Jr., Casemiro, Joelinton, Tamirez, Marta, Endric and Vitor Roque An analysis by ) shows how many goals missing the top scorer in European football still active has surpassed the record set by CR7.

To catch up with Ronaldo, Lewandowski needs to score 48 goals, while Muller is 78 goals behind the Portuguese. Salah, the third top scorer in European football, is still 96 goals away from reaching the CR7 record. Unfortunately, as Liverpool did not advance, they will not be able to add to their points tally in this competition.

Followed by Mbappe and Haaland, with 41 and 35 goals respectively.Although it is still far from the original goal cristiano ronaldoBoth are young, both under 25, and are already ahead of several more experienced players such as Griezmann, Di Maria and Morata.

So far, Mbappe has averaged 0.65 goals per game and 5.1 goals per season (this is the 8th league in which the Frenchman has participated). At this rate, it will take Mbappe 19.5 years to catch up with Ronaldo. In his best season, the Frenchman scored 8 goals; if he can recover and maintain such performance, he will need 12.4 seasons.

HaalandFor its part, it has participated in six Champions Leagues and currently averages 1.09 goals per game and 7 goals per season. If this average is maintained, it will take another 15 years for the Norwegian to reach CR7’s 140 goals, meaning he has 20 seasons in total, which is fewer than Cristiano Ronaldo needed to set the record One season. However, if Haaland can maintain the same performance as last season (12 goals), it will only take 8.75 years to reach 140 goals (a total of 14 seasons, 5 seasons less than CR7).