A midfielder competing with top strikers: Jude Bellingham’s impressive statistics | Champions League

At 20 years and 153 days, Jude Bellingham became the third-youngest player to score 10 Champions League goals.

Only Kylian Mbappé (18 years, 350 days) and Erling Haaland (19 years, 212 days) have achieved this faster.

Karim Benzema (20 years and 307 days) is the only other player to have scored 10 Champions League goals before his 21st birthday.

After the league match against Cadiz, Bellingham can describe himself as a better new player than Cristiano Ronaldo at Real Madrid. 14 goals in his first 15 matches with the Royal Club, while Ronaldo scored 13 goals in 2009.

But it is no coincidence that Ronaldo is Real Madrid’s all-time top scorer with 450 goals in 438 matches. After 16 games, the Portuguese has scored 15 goals, just as Bellingham did after his Champions League goal against Napoli.

He’s as good as a record goalscorer as a midfielder…still impressive. Zinedine Zidane could only dream of it.

Jude Bellingham is the first Real Madrid player to score in his first 4 Champions League matches.

Even Ronaldo couldn’t do that. The Portuguese scored 6 goals in his first 4 Champions League matches for Real Madrid, but his goal was silenced against Zurich.

With his goal and assist against Napoli, Jude Bellingham scored 11 goals (8 goals and 3 assists) in the final two group stages of the Champions League.

He is equal to Haaland in this regard. Only Kylian Mbappe was more productive, contributing 13 goals (10 goals, 3 assists).

Bellingham scored 15 goals for Real Madrid. After 16 games with Los Blancos, his performance is already better than he was in a full season with Borussia Dortmund. Last year, he scored 14 goals in 42 matches.