GENT secured their passage into the Europa Conference League quarter-finals thanks to a THREE-MINUTE hat-trick from Gift Orban.
Orban, aged just 20, fired a record-breaking hat-trick into the net of Istanbul Basaksehir in the Conference League Last 16.
What a hit from Gent's Gift Orban!
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He bags two goals in two minutes and the second is an emphatic finish#UECL pic.twitter.com/e350MopE5z
At just three minutes and 25 seconds, it is the fastest hat-trick ever scored in a Uefa club competition.
Amazingly the young Nigerian forward had also scored four goals in his last game.
Orban’s performance comes after Erling Haaland‘s own record-breaking night when he scored FIVE goals against RB Leipzig in a 7-1 win for Manchester City.
And fans could not help but draw comparisons between the two.
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One user on Twitter said: “Gent striker Gift Orban does his best Haaland impersonation and scores three before halftime in Europe.”
A second user remarked: “Gift Orban scoring a three-minute hat-trick in the #UECL – Erling Haaland eat your heart out. Bosh.”
A third joked: “Everybody watching Haaland yesterday 
. Gift Orban: ‘Hold my beer’.”
While a fourth added: “Gift Orban the Nigerian Haaland.”
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Despite only making his debut for Gent in February, Orban has already scored nine goals in eight games.
Haaland has already become Man City’s all-time leading goalscorer in a single season with 39 goals in all competitions.
Meanwhile, his quintet on Tuesday saw him become the youngest player in Champions League history to surpass 30 goals.
