UCL: Champions League top scorers, most assists as eight teams qualify for quarter-finals
Following the conclusion of the UEFA Champions League round of 16 stage on Wednesday, below are the current leading top scorers and assists in the Europe top-flight competition.
Recall that Real Madrid defeated Liverpool and Napoli thrashed Eintracht Frankfurt at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona to book their places in the Champions League quarter-final.
Both Real Madrid and Napoli have now joined the likes of Manchester City, Inter Milan, Bayern Munich, AC Milan, Chelsea and Benfica in the last-8
Manchester City’s Erling Haaland is currently the top leading scorer in the UEFA Champions League for the 2022/2023 season with 10 goals.
Top scorers in the 2022/2023 Champions League so far:
10 goals – Erling Haaland (Man City)
8 goals – Mohamed Salah (Liverpool)
7 goals – Kylian Mbappé (Paris)
6 goals – Vinícius Júnior (Real Madrid) and João Mário (Benfica)
5 goals – Robert Lewandowski (Barcelona), Mehdi Taremi (Porto) and Rafa Silva (Benfica)
4 goals – Jude Bellingham (Dortmund), Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting (Bayern). Olivier Giroud (Milan), Mohammed Kudus (Ajax), Lionel Messi (Paris), Darwin Núñez (Liverpool), Victor Osimhen (Napoli), Giacomo Raspadori (Napoli), Leroy Sané (Bayern), Giovanni Simeone (Napoli) and Piotr Zieliński (Napoli)
Most assists in the 2022/2023 Champions League so far:
5 assists – João Cancelo (Man City/Bayern)
4 assists – Kevin De Bruyne (Man City), Leon Goretzka (Bayern), Diogo Jota (Liverpool), Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (Napoli) and Lionel Messi (Paris)
3 assists – Ángel Di María (Juventus), Serge Gnabry (Bayern), Alejandro Grimaldo (Benfica) Joshua Kimmich (Bayern), Kylian Mbappé (Paris), Neymar (Paris), Ivan Perišić (Spurs), André Silva (Leipzig), Mohamed Simakan (Leipzig), Vinícius Júnior (Real Madrid) and André-Frank Zambo Anguissa (Napoli)
