Robert Lewandowski fires fastest ever Champions League hat-trick as Bayern run riot against Salzburg
ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI has scored the quickest Champions League hat-trick ever to help his side blitz past RB Salzburg.
Bayern Munich had gone into the second leg clash with the Austrian underdogs level at 1-1 from the first match last month.
Despite their hard work last time out, however, Salzburg's hopes were dashed in the blink of an eye as Lewandowski smashed an early hat-trick past them.
The big Pole got the ball rolling in the 12th minute, stroking home a penalty after he had been fouled in the box.
He then added another from the spot nine minutes later to put his side in a dominant position.
It took just two more minutes for the 33-year-old to seal a 23-minute hat-trick, when he tapped the ball in with his thigh from a yard out following some shambolic Salzburg defending.
The previous quickest hat-trick from the start of a Champions League match had been scored by AC Milan's Marco Simone against Rosenborg in 1996.
Serge Gnabry then got in on the act just after the half hour mark, squirming a side-footed effort beneath hapless goalkeeper Philipp Kohn.
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It took just eight minutes of the second-half for Thomas Muller to add a fifth, swivelling on the spot before rifling a left-footed drive into the bottom corner.
Teenager Maurits Kjaergaard was then able to spank a stunning effort into the top corner to temporarily reduce RB Salzburg's arrears.
But it wasn't long before Muller scuffed home his second in the 83rd minute following a one-two with Leroy Sane.
The former Manchester City winger then added a goal of his own two minutes later - making it 7-1.
Lewandowski is enjoying another stunning season with the German champions.
Tonight's early hat-trick took him to 42 goals for the season in just 35 appearances.
His record is even more mind-boggling in the Champions League, having scored 12 in just eight outings - tonight overtaking ex-West Ham ace Sebastien Haller as the competition's top scorer.
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