Harry Kane becomes England's top scorer in Champions League history

The 2024-25 Champions League got off to a historic start in Munich. Bayern beat Dinamo Zagreb 9-2 to become the first club to score that many goals in a match since the change in format of the top club competition in 1992. The bar was set at eight goals by the Bavarians themselves (2-8 to Barca), Borussia Dortmund (8-4 to Legia), Real Madrid (8-0 to Malmo), Liverpool (8-0 to Besiktas) and Monaco (8-3 to Deportivo) and the Germans broke it down on an incredible night in which they had three penalties.

All of them were converted by Harry Kane who, with another goal on the stroke of the first quarter of an hour of the second half, rounded off a historic performance. Only 20 times had a player managed to score at least four goals in a match and two of those were Messi's and two Lewandowski's, making the Briton the 18th player to score that many goals in a single game.

Most notably, Harry Kane became England's all-time top scorer in both the Champions League and European Cup, an achievement he had been chasing for a number of years now due to his form in Europe.

The Walthamstow striker was a goal behind Wayne Rooney, and on Tuesday night he surpassed him. He took his tally to 33 goals, scored in 45 games at a respectable average of 0.73 goals per outing. Rooney was on 30, but needed 85 games to do so (0.35), making Kane's tally far more impressive.

The podium is completed for now by a player who will have the opportunity to further increase his numbers in this edition of the Champions League. After not playing in the top club competition last season, Raheem Sterling, with 27 goals in 82 appearances (0.33), is not too far behind Rooney either.

Surprisingly, the rest of the top 10 has more midfielders than strikers. Paul Scholes is 4th with 24 goals in 124 games (0.19), Frank Lampard is 5th with 23 in 105 (0.22), Steven Gerrard is 6th with 21 in 73 (0.29), Andy Cole is 7th with 18 in 48 (0.38), David Beckham is 8th with 16 in 107 (0.15) and Phil Foden and Theo Walcott share 9th place with 15 goals in 52 (0.29) and 59 games (0.25) respectively.