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Haaland or Mbappe? Who has the best chance of breaking Ronaldo’s Champions League goals record?

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Erling Haaland’s brace against Porto on Tuesday night maintained the Manchester City striker’s incredible scoring rate in the Uefa Champions League. Haaland now has 59 goals from 59 games in European club football’s elite competition, giving him the best goals-per-game ratio of any notable player in its history. In fact, he is the only player to have scored a significant number of goals at a rate of at least one per game. It’s also the best scoring rate of the three active players among the Champions League's all-time top scorers: Haaland, Harry Kane and Kylian Mbappe. The benchmark, however, is still some way off for all three. Cristiano Ronaldo is out in front with a staggering 140 goals from 183 appearances in the competition. So, this raises the question: Can one of this generation’s elite goalscorers actually beat Ronaldo’s record? Kane has an impressive haul of 54 goals in 70 games, but at 33, the England captain can almost certainly be ruled out of the race. Sadly for him, he st

First report: Erling Haaland backed to overtake Cristiano Ronaldo and make all-time football history — talksport.com, 4d