Bayern Munich‘s forward made headlines on Tuesday evening by scoring four goals in a 9-2 win over Dinamo Zagreb.
This performance allowed him to surpass Wayne Rooney as the highest-scoring Englishman in Champions League history and made him the first English player to score four goals in a single match in the tournament.
“Being mentioned in the same breath as Wayne Rooney means a lot,” he stated in an interview with Prime Video.
“He was one of the best English players ever. This is a significant milestone.”
With this achievement, he also matched Andy Cole and Michael Owen for the most Champions League hat-tricks by an Englishman (2) and became the 19th player to score four goals in a Champions League match.
Out of these players, only Lionel Messi and Robert Lewandowski have achieved four goals in a game on more than one occasion, while Messi, Luiz Adriano, and Erling Haaland have scored five times in a single Champions League match.
Players Who Scored Four Goals in a Champions League Game
- Marco van Basten, Milan 4-0 IFK Göteborg – 25 February 1992
- Simone Inzaghi, Lazio 5-1 Marseille – 14 March 2000
- Dado Prso, Monaco 8-3 Deportivo de La Coruña – 5 November 2003
- Ruud van Nistelrooy, Manchester United 4-1 Sparta Prague – 3 November 2004
- Andriy Shevchenko, Fenerbahçe 0-4 Milan – 23 November 2005
- Lionel Messi, Barcelona 4-1 Arsenal – 6 April 2010
- Bafétimbi Gomis, Dinamo Zagreb 1-7 Lyon – 7 December 2011
- Lionel Messi, Barcelona 7-1 Bayer 04 Leverkusen – 7 March 2012 (5)
- Mario Gomez, Bayern Munich 7-0 Basel – 13 March 2012
- Robert Lewandowski, Borussia Dortmund 4-1 Real Madrid – 24 April 2013
- Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Anderlecht 0-5 Paris Saint-Germain – 23 October 2013
- Luiz Adriano, BATE Borisov 0-7 Shakhtar Donetsk – 21 October 2014 (5)
- Cristiano Ronaldo, Real Madrid 8-0 Malmö FF – 8 December 2015
- Serge Gnabry, Tottenham Hotspur 2-7 Bayern Munich – 1 October 2019
- Robert Lewandowski, Crvena Zvezda 0-6 Bayern Munich – 26 November 2019
- Josip Ilicic, Valencia 3-4 Atalanta – 10 March 2020
- Olivier Giroud, Sevilla 0-4 Chelsea – 2 December 2020
- Sébastien Haller, Sporting CP 1-5 Ajax – 15 September 2021
- Erling Haaland, Manchester City 7-0 RB Leipzig – 14 March 2023
- Bayern Munich, 9-2 Dinamo Zagreb – 17 September 2024
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