Mohamed Salah, who was able to complete the Champions League record in six minutes and twelve seconds against Rangers, has now broken it.
The Egyptian served as a second-half replacement during Liverpool’s 7-1 routHowever, he made up for it by scoring in the 75th-, 80th and 81st minutes.
That gives him the new record in Europe’s top tier, taken off of former Lyon striker Bafetimbi Gomis, who scored an eight-minute hat-trick against Dinamo Zagreb in a 7-1 win in 2011.
Raheem, Robert Lewandowski, Cristiano Ronaldo and Raheem sterling all achieved 11 minute hat tricks in the competition. However, it was not as fast as Salah.
After a disappointing start to the season with four goals in eleven games, Salah was surprised to be dropped to the bench. However, he quickly made amends.
The no.11 did it in spectacular style. With his first attempt a stunning dribble and finish, he bagged his first, and then later, his trademark curling left foot effort secured the hattrick.
Before Salah’s quickfire treble, Roberto Firmino levelled the scores seven minutes after Scott Arfield gave Rangers a shock lead.
Firmino struck again in the second-half before setting up Darwin Nunez at 66 minutes.
Champions League hat-tricks fastest ever
6 minutes 12 seconds Mohamed Salah (Rangers 1-7 Liverpool, 12/10/2022)
8 minutes Bafétimbi Gomis (Dinamo Zagreb 1-7 Lyon, 07/12/2011)
9 minutes Mike Newell (Blackburn 4-1 Rosenborg, 06/12/1995)
11 minutes Raheem Sterling (Manchester City 5-1 Atalanta, 22/10/2019)
11 minutes Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid 8-0 Malmö, 08/12/2015)
11 minutes Robert Lewandowski (Bayern 7-1 Salzburg, 08/03/22)
12 mins Robert Lewandowski (Crvena zvezda 0-6 Bayern, 26/11/2019)
12 minutes Luiz Adriano (BATE Borisov 0-7 Shakhtar, 21/10/2014)
Harvey Elliott finished the match with a late right-footed effort. The result confirms Rangers’ exit from the competition.
