Find out about the top scorer in the Champions League after Mohamed Salah's hattrick

 Find out about the top scorer in the Champions League after Mohamed Salah's hattrick

Find out about the top scorer in the Champions League after Mohamed Salah's hattrick

Egyptian football player, Liverpool star Mohamed Salah caused a controversy in the list of the best scorers of the current season of the Champions League after the historic hat-trick he scored in the game with "Glasgow Rangers".

In the fourth round of the first group of the Champions League, "Liverpool" won a crushing victory over "Rangers" with a score of 7:1.

Salah scored 3 goals (hat-trick) in the 75th, 80th and 82nd minutes.

UEFA Champions League top scorer

Thanks to this hat-trick, Salah takes his tally to 5 goals in the current Champions League competition, equaling Erling Haaland, Lewandowski, Victor Boniface and Mislav Orsic.

Meanwhile, more than one player has scored 4 goals, such as Judd Bellingham, Adama Traore, Leroy Sane, Kylian Mbappe and Jean Clement.

Salah is the best African scorer in Champions League history

Salah managed to surpass the historical record set by the former Ivorian Didier Drogba (44 goals), becoming the Egyptian star, the best African scorer in the history of the Champions League with 45 goals.

Mohamed Salah's hat-trick is also the fastest in Champions League history, as he scored it in 6 minutes and 12 seconds.

Salah surpasses Aguero and Drogba, who scored 36 goals, as the top scorer in the Champions League with English clubs with 38 goals.