Elling Hollan. AP Yonhap News
The 2020-2021 European Football Federation Champions League (UCL) is likely to be remembered as a tournament that announces the end of an era to world soccer fans. Lionel Messi (34, FC Barcelona) and Cristiano Ronaldo (36, Juventus), who had been the best players for more than 10 years in the first leg of the round of 16 held on the 17th and 18th of last month, were sluggish side by side. Saint-Germain) and Eling Holland (21, Dortmund) made big success. They were games that showed a clear generational change trend.
A day has passed when this trend has become clearer. While Holland led his team Dortmund to the quarter-finals with a multi-goal score in the second leg of the UCL 16 against Sevilla held at BVB Stadion in Dortmund on the 10th, Ronaldo was eliminated by Porto in a helpless appearance.
Hollan, who led the team’s 4-3 victory by scoring two goals in the first leg, showed a powerful figure on this day as well. In the 35th minute of the first half, Marco Royce (32) received a pass and finished with a left foot in front of the goal area, scoring the opening goal, and a penalty kick was added in the 9th minute of the second half. Sevilla later pursued two goals and the match drew 2-2, but Dortmund decided to advance to the quarterfinals with a total of 5-4 in the first and second games based on the victory in the first game. In both matches, Holland scored a whopping 4 of the 5 scores scored by Dortmund. Hollan also continued to have a surprising sense of scoring that he was a multi-goal for 4 consecutive UCL games from the 3rd leg of Group F in the group stage against Club Bruges (Belgium) held in November last year.
Hollan also made several records in his activities on this day. First of all, he became a player who scored 20 points at the youngest age in the’Dream Stage’ by filling 20 goals in UCL’s career after 20 years and 231 days. It is faster than Messi (22 years old 266 days) as well as contemporaneous rival Mbappe (21 years old and 355 days).
He scored 20 goals in just 14 games and set a record of at least 20 points in the game. Previously, Tottenham’s Harry Kane (28/24 matches) was the fastest scoring 20 points in the tournament. Ronaldo (56 games), Messi (40 games), and Robert Lewandowski (33, Bayern Munich, 36 games), who placed 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the UCL’s most scoring points, are also unable to keep up with Holland in this record.
Cristiano Ronaldo. AFP=News 1
On the same day, Ronaldo, who was called’the man of UCL’ with the most goals (135 goals) in the tournament, was sluggish, and Holland’s performance was even more outstanding. In the second leg of the game at Juventus Stadium in Turin, Italy, Juventus won 3-2 after an overtime match, but failed to overcome the 1st and 2nd matches and tied 4-4 in total in the first and second games, leading to a multi-point advantage rule. I was eliminated in the round of 16 by. Ronaldo scored 1 assist, but didn’t make the goal he expected. In the end, he drank a high grade in the round of 16 for two consecutive seasons following last season.
In the first leg of the previous round of 16, Messi’s Barcelona lost 1-4 to Mbafe’s Paris Saint-Germain. Messi is also about to drop out of the round of 16. Then, after the 2005-2006 season, the quarterfinals without Messi and Ronaldo were completed in 16 years, making the trend of generational change even more pronounced.
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