Thomas Muller sets Champions League scoring record for German players
Thomas Muller stands alone.
The Bayern Munich star found the net in his club's 6-1 annihilation of FC Porto in Tuesday's Champions League quarter-final contest, and in the process became the highest-scoring German player in the history of the tournament.
Muller, still only 25, scored his 27th goal in the competition when his long-range strike took a wicked deflection before slipping under the legs of goalkeeper Fabiano late in the opening half at the Allianz Arena.
As a result, he surpassed former teammate Mario Gomez, whose tally in Europe's premier club competition stands at 26.
"It was a world-class strike," Muller joked of the deflected effort after the match. "Like Hermann Gerland (Bayern's assistant coach) has always said: You don't think where to play the ball; just shoot into the goal."
Simply put. Fitting for a player who seems to accomplish everything on the pitch in the same manner.
- With translation from ESPN FC
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