After celebrating with a double and cooking in the previous game against Sevilla, Arling Holland continued his conquest with another double tonight (Tuesday), bringing his team one step closer to the Champions League quarter-finals. Along the way, the Norwegian bomber managed to record quite a few impressive numbers, and comments on the net.
The Netherlands is the first player to score at least a pair in four consecutive Champions League games, having done so in two games against Club Brugge and in a pair of games against Sevilla. At 20 and 231 days old, he also became the youngest player to score in six consecutive games at the factory. Since making his Champions League debut in September 2019 in the Red Bull Salzburg uniform, no player has scored more than the Netherlands in the factory (20). Robert Lewandowski scored one less.
And while the Netherlands needed just 14 games to reach 20 Champions League goals, Kane needed 24, Alessandro Del Piero 26, Rod van Nistelrooy 27, Filippo Inzaghi 28 and Robert Lewandowski 36. Leo Messi needed 40 games, and the king of goals of The factory, Cristiano Ronaldo, needed 56 appearances, four times that of the Norwegian.
With 20 conquests the Netherlands also surpassed Killian Ambape as the top scorer in the Champions League until the age of 21, and he is also the factory’s new Norwegian conqueror, having overtaken Ola Gunnar Solskjaer, who reached that amount in an entire career.
The Norwegian is also the player who has scored the most goals in his first 14 appearances in the Champions League. By comparison, Harry Kane has scored 13 goals in the same amount of games, Simona Inzaghi 12 and Adriano, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mana 11 each.
He managed to go through legends like Francesco Totti, Ronaldinho, Zinedine Zidane, Brazilian Ronaldo, Adriano, Carlos Tevez, Falcao and Romulo Lukaku, all at just 20 years old. As for Dortmund, the Schwarzgelben themselves set a new club record, having won 34 consecutive games in all competitions.
Think it’s over? A mistake in your mouth. Note this: this season, the Netherlands have scored or cooked up 64% of Dortmund’s goals in the Champions League and 48% of Dortmund’s goals in the Bundesliga. And again, he is only 20. The network did not remain indifferent to the Norwegian’s purposeful display, either, with comments such as: “inhuman”, “guess who?” Or “The Champions League is small on him.”