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#8 Cristiano Ronaldo scores a record 'home' goal in the Champions League
Cristiano Ronaldo, the all-time top-scorer in Champions League history, continues to eke out new records in his favourite competition.
After scoring against Ferencvaros to go level with Lionel Messi's record of 70 home goals in the Champions League, Ronaldo scored against Dynamo Kyiv in the next game to take sole ownership of the record.
It was also a landmark 750th goal for club and country for the Portugal captain, who shows no signs of slowing down barely months away from his 36th birthday.
Ronaldo scored a pair of penalties against Barcelona on Matchday 6, his first goals against the Blaugrana in the competition, to take his goal tally in the competition to 134.
#9 Lionel Messi becomes the first player to score in 16 consecutive Champions League seasons
Despite making an indifferent start to the 2020-21 season, Lionel Messi - the most prolific scorer in Champions League history after Juventus' Cristiano Ronaldo - created more records in the competition by scoring on Matchday 1 against Ferencvaros.
It made Messi the first player to score in 16 consecutive seasons in the Champions League, a feat that has since been emulated by Frenchman Karim Benzema.
During the campaign, Messi became the first player in Champions League history to tally 70 group-stage goals in the competition.
#10 Olivier Giroud becomes the oldest player to score a Champions League hat-trick
With Chelsea's qualification already secured going into the Matchday 5 game at Sevilla, Olivier Giroud made a rare start and made it count as he netted all four goals for Chelsea.
In the process, the embattled French striker proved to Frank Lampard and Chelsea that he ought to start more games for the club despite the wealth of attacking options at their disposal.
Giroud's quadruple effort made the 34-year-old World Cup winner the oldest player to net a Champions League hat-trick, breaking the previous record held by Cristiano Ronaldo and Claudio Pizzaro.
In the process, Giroud became the only French player, along with Karim Benzema, to net two Champions League hat-tricks.
The striker's quadruple also made him the first Chelsea player in a decade (Frank Lampard) to score four goals in a game in any competition.
