Erling Haaland: Could he be the man to knock Liverpool out of Champions League?

Prolific Red Bull Salzburg teenager Erling Braut Haaland could pose a major threat to Liverpool’s hopes of defending their Champions League title.

Jurgen Klopp’s men head to Austria for their final Group E match next month knowing a defeat is likely to see them dumped out, and Haaland – one of the rising stars of European football – is a player the Reds will need to watch closely.

Here the PA news agency looks at the in-form striker’s track record and what could be next for the 19-year-old.

Record-breaking goalscorer

Haaland’s late goal against Genk on Wednesday earned him a slice of history as the first teenager to score in five consecutive Champions League (or European Cup) matches. His total of eight goals in those games – including an earlier hat-trick against the Belgian champions, three overall against Napoli and one versus Liverpool – also takes him past Harry Kane and Diego Costa, who both managed seven goals in their first five appearances in the competition. They are not the only star names he finds himself keeping company with, having matched Alessandro Del Piero, Sergei Rebrov, Neymar, Cristiano Ronaldo and Robert Lewandowski by scoring in the first five games of a group stage. Overall he has netted 27 times in 19 games for Salzburg, with five hat-tricks.

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