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Chris WrightToe Poke writer
Liverpool took themselves to the brink of qualifying for the Champions League knockout signifier successful emphatic manner connected Wednesday by thrashing Rangers 7-1 astatine Ibrox, wherever Mohamed Salah was afforded the state of Glasgow.
Bouncing backmost from a deflating decision against Arsenal successful the Premier League past weekend, the Reds powered to a connection triumph acknowledgment successful nary tiny portion to a spectacular chapeau instrumentality from second-half substitute Salah.
With his broadside already 3-1 up and cruising, Salah replaced Darwin Nunez successful the 68th infinitesimal and proceeded to rattle distant 3 goals wrong the abstraction of conscionable six minutes and 12 seconds to go the scorer of the fastest chapeau instrumentality successful men's Champions League history.
Harvey Elliott went connected to implicit the 7-goal rout for Liverpool but the nighttime undoubtedly belonged to Salah, who fired his mode into the grounds books contempt spending conscionable 22 minutes connected the transportation successful total.
There is yet a caller sanction astatine the apical of the all-time database of fastest Champions League chapeau instrumentality scorers for the archetypal clip successful 11 years, and the apical 10 includes immoderate large stars and a fewer astonishment names.
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10. Claudio Pizarro (Bayern Munich vs Lille, Nov. 7, 2012) 15 mins
— Liga de Campeones (@LigadeCampeones) October 3, 2020After coming flying retired of the traps, Bayern scored 5 goals earlier the interruption arsenic they romped to a resounding 6-1 triumph implicit Lille successful the 2012-13 radical stage. Bastian Schweinsteiger has already enactment the Bavarians up erstwhile Pizarro scored his archetypal extremity of the fractional successful the 18th minute. The Peru planetary past added his 2nd and 3rd successful the abstraction of 15 minutes, and each earlier the half-time whistle. At the clip it was the fourth-fastest Champions League chapeau instrumentality ever scored, but plentifulness of h2o -- and goals -- person flowed beneath the span since then.
9. Neymar (Barcelona vs Celtic, Dec. 11, 2013 ) 14 mins
— UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) December 11, 2018Neymar deed 3 goals successful little than a 4th of an hr either broadside of half-time successful a 6-1 triumph implicit Celtic successful 2013 for Barcelona -- the archetypal of which constituting the Brazilian star's first-ever extremity successful the Champions League.
8. Luiz Adriano (BATE Borisov 0-7 Shakhtar Donetsk, Oct. 21, 2014) 12 mins
The Shakhtar striker really scored 5 goals successful a 7-0 triumph astatine BATE Borisov successful 2014, which is the joint-most ever scored by an idiosyncratic subordinate successful a azygous Champions League match. It conscionable truthful happens that the archetypal 3 goals lone came 12 minutes apart, making them the fourth-fastest chapeau instrumentality ever scored successful the contention astatine the time, too.
7. Robert Lewandowski (Crvena Zvezda 0-6 Bayern Munich, Nov. 26, /2019) 12 mins
Lewandowski took 12 minutes to people 3 goals against Red Star successful a radical signifier walkover for Bayern successful 2019. The prolific Polish poacher yet ended with 4 goals successful 14 minutes connected the nighttime and 15 for the tournament, which ended with him arsenic apical scorer and Bayern arsenic European champions.
6. Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich 7-1 Salzburg, March 8, 2022) 11 mins
After mustering a expansive full of zero shots connected people successful the archetypal limb of the circular of 16 meeting, Lewandowski addressed the concern by taking conscionable 11 minutes to people 3 goals against Salzburg wrong the archetypal 23 minutes of the second. The Bayern striker opened with 2 astir back-to-back penalties (12th and 21st minute) earlier capitalising connected a fortunate ricochet to notch his third.
5. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid 8-0 Malmo, Dec. 8, 2015) 11 mins
📅#NesteDia em 2015... 🔥 Fogo de @Cristiano derrete Malmö! 🧊#UCL pic.twitter.com/tqCGZEtHit
— UEFA.com em português (@UEFAcom_pt) December 8, 2021Ronaldo has scored 8 chapeau tricks successful the Champions League (a joint-record helium shares with -- who else? -- Lionel Messi) and the fastest of them was his fourth. His 11-minute treble came arsenic portion of a four-goal glut successful Real Madrid's obliteration of Swedish makeweights Malmo backmost successful 2015. The circumstantial "hat trick" successful question straddled the half-time break, with the Portuguese superstar kicking disconnected his barrage with a torpedo escaped footwear successful the 39th infinitesimal earlier adding 2 much goals successful the 47th and 50th minutes.
4. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City 5-1 Atalanta, Oct. 22, 2019) 11 mins
— Manchester City (@ManCity) November 6, 2019Prior to Salah's heroics, Sterling was the astir caller summation to the database having taken 11 minutes to people 3 goals for Man City successful their spanking of Atalanta astatine the Etihad. City really fell down to an aboriginal punishment but a second-half treble from in-form winger Sterling (his 12th, 13th and 14th goals successful his past 17 Champions League games astatine that point) sealed a commanding comeback triumph for Pep Guardiola's side.
3. Mike Newell (Blackburn Rovers 4-1 Rosenborg, Dec. 6, 1995) 9 mins
— Blackburn Rovers (@Rovers) December 6, 2017Blackburn striker Newell needed conscionable 9 minutes to people a "perfect" chapeau instrumentality (left foot, close root, header) successful a triumph against Rosenborg astatine Ewood Park. It was the precocious constituent of a miserable run for the reigning Premier League champions, who finished bottommost of their radical and had 2 of their players -- David Batty and Graeme Le Saux -- warring each different connected the transportation during a 3-0 nonaccomplishment astatine Spartak Moscow.
2. Bafetimbi Gomis (Dinamo Zagreb 1-7 Lyon, Dec. 7, 2011), 8 mins
— UEFA.com DE (@UEFAcom_de) December 7, 2021Gomis had antecedently held what looked to beryllium an unassailable grounds since 2011 erstwhile helium took conscionable 8 minutes to people 3 quarters of his four-goal haul successful Lyon's drubbing of Dinamo Zagreb during the Champions League radical stage.
1. Mohamed Salah (Rangers 1-7 Liverpool, Oct. 12, 2022), 7 mins
Salah's ludicrous three-goal cameo against Rangers not lone saw the Liverpool guardant interruption the grounds for the fastest Champions League chapeau trick, but astatine conscionable 22 minutes it besides saw him acceptable a caller grounds for the fewest full minutes spent connected the transportation by a substitute to people 3 goals -- a wordy record, but awesome nonetheless. Joining the likes of Didier Drogba, Samuel Eto'o, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and erstwhile Reds onslaught spouse Sadio Mane, Salah is present besides the eighth African-born subordinate to people a chapeau instrumentality successful the Champions League.
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