SADIO MANE IS NOW THE HIGHEST AFRICAN GOAL SCORER IN UCL KNOCKOUT ERA

Posted by: Sportify✅

Date: 5th May 2022

 Sadio Mané is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a winger for Premier League club Liverpool and the Senegal national team. Mané finished fourth for the 2019 Ballon d'Or, and in the award for the Best FIFA Men's Player he ranked fifth in 2019 and fourth in 2020.

Liverpool  forward Sadio Mane was on target in the team's comfortable 2-0 win over Villareal last night. Ever the man for a big occasion, the Senegalese attacker toe-poked the ball into the net after a fantastic through ball by Mo Salah. The goal, coming just 2 minutes after Jordan Henderson’s cross/shot was deflected into the Villarreal net, effectively killed the game.

With that goal, Mane took his goal tally at the knockout stage to 14, drawing level with former Ivory Coast international Didier Drogba as the highest-scoring African in the history of the Champions League.

Tonight Sadio Mane equalled Didier Drogba as the African player with the most #UCL knockout goals (14).

Here's how many games it took them to do it:

Drogba - 46
Mane - 25

That's 14 goals in 25 knockout games in the Champions League for Mane. Incredible.