Every Lionel Messi Champions League record that Mbappe, Haaland & Yamal will break

 A couple of long-standing Lionel Messi records have fallen after another round of Champions League football.

Erling Haaland’s two goals against PSG saw him become the youngest player in UCL history to reach 60 goals, beating Messi’s previous record by a single day. Haaland scored his 60th at the age of 26 years and 85 days.

While over in Rome, Kylian Mbappe became the youngest player to reach 100 UCL appearances.

The free-scoring Frenchman registered his century of games at the age of 27 years and 298 days, beating Messi’s record by 151 days.

The stats are a little skewed in Mbappe’s favour though as he has had two and a bit seasons of the new Champions League format which can see clubs play up to 17 games compared to the maximum of 13 in the old format.

It is still an impressive feat regardless, with Mbappe having played Champions League football in all but one of the seasons of his career so far, making his debut as a 17-year-old against Bayer Leverkusen in 2016.

The former Monaco and PSG player looks the strongest contender to take a lot of Messi’s goalscoring records as well.

The eight-time Ballon d’Or winner currently has the most Champions League group stage/league phase goals and the most Champions League round of 16 goals, but Mbappe has 45 goals in the first stage of the competition, 35 short of Messi’s tally, and 12 goals to Messi’s 29 in the round of 16.

Both milestones are possible but would take consistently high-scoring seasons from the Madrid man.

If he continues at his goalscoring rate then Mbappe will almost certainly overtake Messi’s all-time goals in the competition and maybe even make himself the top scorer in UCL history.

Mbappe currently has 72 goals in 100 games while Messi has 129 in 163. Top of the charts is Cristiano Ronaldo on 140 goals in 183 games and so Mbappe would have to pretty much double his tally before his career is over.

It is not unreasonable to think that he could. He is scoring at a ratio of 0.72 goals a game, which is only marginally worse than the 0.79 of Messi and 0.77 of Ronaldo, and as he is only 27, he has plenty of years at the top left to go.

Perhaps though Haaland would be a better bet to break the record. The Norwegian is the only player in the top 50 who is averaging more than a goal a game with hss 61 in 60, boosted by his brace against PSG on Wednesday, and could easily reach Messi and Ronaldo if he continues at that pace.

The Manchester City striker is also younger than Mbappe at 26, although may lose out on a season if his club are suddenly in the National League.