Ajax take on Benfica on the Estadio da Luz as they go back to Lisbon, where Haller scored 4 instances on his Champions League debut when the Dutch champions beat Sporting 5-1 alongside the road on the Jose Alvalade in September.
Ivory Coast global Haller went on to attain 10 times in the institution stage, turning into just the second one player to find the net in all six group games in a Champions League marketing campaign after Cristiano Ronaldo in 2017.
"Before the opposition in case you requested me if I would rating that many dreams of route I would say no," Haller told Ajax TV in advance of the knockout levels of Europe's elite membership opposition.
"I was satisfied with one already. I score one purpose within the Champions League and my existence is performed."
Haller, who's 27, became the primary participant to attain a quadruple on his debut in the opposition considering that Marco van Basten in 1992 and his desires helped Ajax pinnacle their group with most points, beating Sporting, Borussia Dortmund and Besiktas home and away.
His tally of 10 dreams puts him one ahead of Bayern Munich's Robert Lewandowski within the competition's scoring charts and is as many as Dortmund's Erling Haaland managed remaining season whilst he finished because the Champions League's main marksman.
"Ten is good enough, it is a terrific number due to the fact we created a number of possibilities. I ought to have scored even more but 10 is a simply remarkable range," Haller delivered.
Signed from West Ham United in January final 12 months, French-born Haller recently marked his fiftieth appearance for Ajax with a hat-trick of near-variety finishes in a five-zero hammering of FC Twente.
He has 28 goals in 28 video games in all competitions this season, which includes six in four games in view that coming back from the Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon, in which the Ivory Coast went out within the remaining 16 to Egypt.
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