The stat with which Messi and Neymar crushes the rest of stories in Europe

Who has scored the most goals in this season's UEFA Champions League? Who has provided the most assists? Kylian Mbappé and Mohamed Salah are tied on seven goals at the top of this season's UEFA Champions League scoring charts. Salah finishes the group stage having found the net in five successive Champions League games, incorporating the quickest hat-trick in competition history, timed at just six minutes and 12 seconds, in the Matchday 4 win at Rangers. 

Mbappé also split his goals across five matches, once more drawing level with Salah thanks to his opener for Paris away to Juventus on Matchday 6. Erling Haaland, Robert Lewandowski and Salah were all tied on five goals before Matchday 5, when Mbappé struck twice in Paris's 7-2 defeat of Maccabi Haifa on the Tuesday before being joined on six goals at the summit by Salah the following day. They both then went one better a week later.

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João Cancelo of Manchester City leads the assists with four contributions. The fullback who plays like an attacking midfielder is tied with Diogo Jota of Liverpool and Lionel Messi of PSG on the same tally to make up the top three. When it comes to total goal involvements Mbappe and Messi are first and second. The Frenchman is trumps with 10 goal involvements, followed by the Argentine on eight. In third is Mo Salah of Liverpool.

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There have been two hat-tricks in the group stage: one by Robert Lewandowski of Barcelona and the other by Salah. The Pole top-scored in the 2019/20 version of the competition, when Bayern Munich won in an empty stadium due to pandemic protocols. Lewandowski also won FIFA men's best player in that year, and missed out on the Ballon d'Or as the ceremony was skipped. Last season's top scorer is the world's current best player, the Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema.