Interesting stats from Matchday 3 | UEFA Champions League 2019/20

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Lionel Messi scored his record-extending 67th group-stage goal in the Champions League against Slavia
Lionel Messi scored his record-extending 67th group-stage goal in the Champions League against Slavia

# 4: Robert Lewandowski moves to fourth on the list of all-time goalscorers in the Champions League

Robert Lewandowski
Robert Lewandowski

Robert Lewandowski is on a tear this season. With 12 goals, the prolific Pole is the runaway top-scorer in the Bundesliga and has scored 5 goals in the Champions League this season.

One of two players, the other being Norwegian teen Erling Braut Håland, to have scored in each of the 3 matchdays of the 2019-20 Champions League, Lewandowski moved to 58 goals in the competition with a brace against Olympiakos.

Only Cristiano Ronaldo (127), Lionel Messi (113), Raúl (72), and Karim Benzema (60) have scored more goals in the Champions League the Bayern Munich striker and he looks set to add to his tally in the coming weeks. The Polish striker's tally of 35 goals since the turn of the year is the most by any player across Europe's top-five leagues in that time.

#3 Erling Braut Håland's 6 goals after 3 games is the most by any player in the Champions League

Erling Braut HÃ¥land
Erling Braut Håland

Erling Braut Håland became the 9th player in history to score a Champions League hat-trick on his debut when he netted thrice in Salzburg's thumping 6-2 win over Genk on matchday one.

The three-goal haul also made the Norwegian teen the third youngest player in the competition to score a hat-trick. Only Raúl and Wayne Rooney were younger than Håland when they scored their respective first hat-tricks in the Champions League.

Håland's brace against Napoli took the young Norwegian atop the goal-scoring charts for the season. In the process,Håland became the quickest player to score 6 goals in the Champions League, doing so in just three games.

Cristiano Ronaldo, the Champions League's all-time top-scorer with 127 goals, took 27 games to open his account in the competition, and needed 32 games to score 6 Champions League goals.

Lionel Messi, the only other player in the Champions League to tally a century of goals and the second highest goal-scorer in the history of the competition, took 17 games to register 6 goals in Europe.

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Edited by Vishal Subramanian