Man City thrashed RB Leipzig 7-0 to reach the Champions League quarter-finals. Haaland struck an incredible five goals as City hammered RB Leipzig 7-0 on Tuesday evening to reach the quarter-finals with an 8-1 aggregate victory. Ilkay Gundogan and Kevin De Bruyne scored the others as City progressed to the Champions League quarter-finals. 

Haaland has the first man in nine years to score five in a Champions League game and it might have been more having Pep Guardiola not withdrawn him. Guardiola has been on a quest to win the Champions League with the club but so far has fallen short, losing in the semi-finals last season after being beaten in the final by Chelsea the previous year. 

City boss insists it hasn't been the lack of Haaland, who now has 39 goals this season, in his squad that has been the problem. He said: "Always we have scored goals here. We scored four goals against Real Madrid. We scored six goals against Monaco. We scored four goals against Tottenham here.

"The problem is not that we do not score goals. The problem is that we conceded stupid goals in the past. We gift them. Most of the time, we gift them.

Haaland became the fastest and youngest player to reach 30 Champions League goals. Tuesday's haul gave him 33 goals in 25 games in the competition, still aged 22. 

Guardiola was in a buoyant mood following City's huge victory although revealed he could never be a success at the club due to actress Julia Roberts' association with rivals Manchester United. Pep jokingly said that he was upset with Julia Roberts visiting his rival club Manchester United match when she was at Manchester.

He stated, "I am going to tell you something. I have three idols in my life: Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, and Julia Roberts. These are my three idols. "Julia Roberts, years ago, came to Manchester. Not in the 1990s when Sir Alex Ferguson was winning titles and titles and titles. This was in the period when we were better than United, during these four or five years she went to visit Manchester United. She did not come to see us."