Ajax's historic win over Sporting Lisboa: a debutant scored four goals

The 2021/2022 Champions League season could not have started in a better way for Ajax, a team from the Netherlands that, on their visit to Portugal, beat Sporting Lisbon 5-1, for the first date in Group C, of the European competition. A man marked a new historical milestone.

This is Sebastien Haller, an Ivorian nationalized French striker, who at the age of 27 made his debut in the Champions League, a tournament that started on the right foot, as he scored four goals in the defeat of the Amsterdam team. The great night of the former West Ham attacker started quickly, two minutes into the game he had already scored the first of the night in the Portuguese capital.

Seven minutes later he resumed his dream night, scoring the second. Joao Paulo Dias was in charge of scoring the Lisbon discount. But at 39 ', Steven Berghius put the third of the visit, everything looked like a win and for the second half that saying was confirmed.

And who else, but the great figure of the match Haller, the attacker who sealed his poker and the victory for the visit, with his goals at minute 51 and 63. In this way, the footballer entered the history of the competition because became the second footballer to score four goals in his tournament debut; something that only a certain Marco Van Basten had done, in 1992, playing with Milan against Goteborg.