Anthony Gordon became the hero of the first Champions League playoff match against Azerbaijani Karabakh. The 24-year Englishman scored four goals in the first half, effectively guaranteeing his team's exit before the next round.

This is the kind of performance Gordon saw before Harry Kane in the elite club of English goalscorers. Until now, Harry Kane was the only Englishman to score 9 or more goals in a single Champions League season (last year he scored 11 times).

Having loved poker in Baku, Gordon achieved this badge and now shares this record with the Bayern forward. Tsikavo, that in the current season of the Premier League Gordon has managed to perform at least 3 goals), the team at the European Arena demonstrates phenomenal performance, scoring against Barcelona, \u200b\u200bBenfica, Bayer and PSV.

On top of repeating Kane's achievement, Gordon set two more records: He surpassed Alan Shearer for the most league goals in one season for the Newcastle man..

Gordon became the only other player in the history of the tournament (after Luis Adriano in 2014), who managed to score 4 goals in the first half of the Champions League match.

After the defeat of Karabakh, Eddi Gau's team has one foot in the 1/8 finals. Since this Saturday, forty years ago, the importance of testing in the Premier League has been emphasized - a trip to the Etihad to Manchester City, and Newcastle have not won against the championship since 2000..