The Real Madrid forward breaks his own jointly held record to net
double figures in a single season of the competition's first round,
netting four times against Malmo
Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo has become the first player to
score 11 goals in the group stage of a Champions League campaign.
The Portugal international achieved the feat with his fourth goal of
the night as his side thumped Malmo 8-0 on Tuesday, having already set
a new record of 10 goals with his hat-trick at Santiago Bernabeu,
besting his own feat twice in the same night.
Ronaldo was previously the joint holder of the record with nine,
alongside Luiz Adriano, but now becomes the outright leader after
top-scoring in the group stage for the fifth time - also a record that
no other player can match.
In scoring the 50th-minute goal that took him over the record, Ronaldo
followed up earlier strikes in the 37th and 47th minutes for an
11-minute blitz, the fastest hat-trick that any Madrid player has
scored in Europe since 1968.
He then followed it up with a fourth just eight minutes later.
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