Manchester City striker Erling Haaland remains the betting favourite to be the Champions League’s top goalscorer this season after the opening round of fixtures.
Haaland didn’t find the target in City’s 3-1 win over Red Star Belgrade to kick off their Group G campaign on Tuesday, with Julian Alvarez netting a brace and Rodri adding the third.
Nevertheless, he rightfully owns the lowest odds to be the competition’s top goalscorer this season at a price of 6/5 with such an esteemed reputation already at the age of just 23.
The Norwegian has accomplished this feat on two occasions previously, first in 2020/21 with ten goals for Borussia Dortmund and again last season with 12 for the Sky Blues.
Second in the betting is Bayern Munich’s shiny new toy Harry Kane, who fired home from the spot in the German giant’s 4-3 victory against Manchester United at the Allianz Arena.
Kylian Mbappe is tied with Kane in the market at 7/2 after the Frenchman also converted from the spot in PSG’s 2-0 win over Borussia Dortmund.
Robert Lewandowski bagged one in Barcelona’s 5-0 thumping of Royal Antwerp and he holds odds of 9/1 to win top goalscorer for the second time after scoring 15 for former club Bayern in 2019/20.
Champions League Top Goalscorer Odds
- Erling Haaland @ 6/5
- Harry Kane @ 7/2
- Kylian Mbappe @ 7/2
- Robert Lewandowski @ 9/1
- Julian Alvarez @ 16/1
- Goncalo Ramos @ 25/1
- Victor Osimhen @ 25/1
- Gabriel Jesus @ 28/1
- Marcus Rashford @ 33/1
- Vinicius Jr @ 33/1
- Jude Bellingham @ 33/1
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Matchday 1 was an electric start to the competition and proved to be a fine display from some of the world’s best goalscorers, but despite starting on the back foot without a goal – Haaland is still the one to beat.
He will likely go on to break even more goalscoring records in this competition which include:
- Youngest to 15 goals – 20y 126d
- Quickest to 15 goals – 12 games
- Youngest to 20 goals – 20y 231d
- Quickest to 20 goals – 14 games
- Youngest to 25 goals – 22y 47d
- Quickest to 25 goals – 20 games
- Youngest to 30 goals – 22y 236d
- Quickest to 30 goals – 25 games
- Youngest to 35 goals – 22y 272d
- Quickest to 35 goals – 27 games
- Only player to score first-half hat-trick on competition debut
- Only player to score multiple times in four consecutive appearances
- Only player to score more than one goal on competition debut for three different clubs
Catch him if you can.
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