Well, that escalated quickly.
Mohamed Salah came off the bench to make history on Wednesday, scoring the fastest hat-trick the Champions League has ever seen during Liverpool’s 7-1 rout of Rangers.
With the Reds holding a 3-1 lead in the second stanza, Jurgen Klopp turned to the Egyptian star, and he wasted no time making an impact – he needed just six minutes and twelve seconds to find the net three times.
Salah capped his whirlwind introduction to the match with a classic left-footed curler in the 81st minute.
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A six-minute hat trick! Mohamed Salah scores three quick goals to break things open for Liverpool
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Mohamed Salah scores a hat trick in six minutes to go into the history books with the fastest ever in #UCL history ??? pic.twitter.com/rer8uDyamz
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The record previously belonged to Bafetimbi Gomis, who scored three goals in eight minutes while playing for Lyon against Dinamo Zagreb in 2011.