IFFHS CONTINENTAL NEWS AND STATS - UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Picture : Pulisic and Milan AC won in Madrid !
Statistics on Champions’ League group stage round 4 (November 5)
Real Madrid vs Milan 1-3
*Milan have stopped Real Madrid's historic streak against Italian teams. They had 10 consecutive victories against Italian rivals in the UCL.
This is the end to the best winning streak of any club against rivals of the same country in the history of the tournament.
*Milan are the first team to score 3 goals against Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu twice in the European Cup/Champions League, having already done so in October 2009.
*Real Madrid conceded their biggest home defeat in the Champions League since 5 March 2019 against Ajax (1-4).
*Real Madrid suffered 2 defeats in a row at the Bernabéu in all competitions (including 0-4 vs Barça) for the first time since October 2020 (0-1 vs Cadiz and 2-3 vs Shakhtar).
Prior to the current double setback, they had gone 39 games in a row without losing at home.
*Last time Real Madrid lost 2 consecutive official matches at the Santiago Bernabéu conceding 7+ goals happened in May 2009 (2-6 vs Barça and 1-3 vs Mallorca).
*Tijjani Reijnders has scored for Milan 4 goals in his last 3 games in all competitions, as many as in his first 60 appearances combined.
Sporting Lisboa vs Manchester City 4-1
*Manchester City lost 3 consecutive games in all competitions for the first time since 2018.
*Manchester City conceded 4 goals in a Champions League match for the second time in their history, after 19 October 2016 (against Barcelona).
*Sporting is the third rival to score 4 goals against a Guardiola team in UCL, along with a 0-4 defeat against Real Madrid with Bayern Munich in April 2014 and just mentioned another 0-4 to Barcelona.
*Viktor Gyökeres became:
the second Swedish player to ever score a hat-trick in UCL, after Zlatan Ibrahimovic (on 23 October 2013, for PSG vs Anderlecht);
the third player to have scored a Champions League hat-trick vs Manchester City, after Lionel Messi (on 19 October 2016, for Barcelona) and Christopher Nkunku (on 15 September 2021 for RB Leipzig);
the third Sporting player to score a hat-trick in a Champions League/European Cup game, after Joao Lourenço (on 16 September 1070 vs Floriana) and António Oliveira (on 29 September 1982 vs Dinamo Zagreb).
*Erling Haaland missed his 2nd penalty in the Champions League. The first was against Bayern in 2023.
*It was only 2nd day in Champions League history when Carlo Ancelotti and Pep Guardiola lost with their teams both.
The first was 28 September 2021 (Real Madrid vs Sheriff Tiraspol 1-2, PSG vs Manchester City 2-0).
PSV Eindhoven vs Girona 4-0
*PSV have scored 4 goals in a Champions League game (not counting qualifiers) for the first time in club history; they also recorded their biggest ever win in the competition.
*Luuk de Jong has played his 85th European game for Dutch team, the outright most of any player. He surpassed Willy van de Kerkhof, Danny Blind and Nick Viergever (84 each).
*Ryan Flamingo's goal was the 2nd UCL goal ever scored by a Dutch team from a throw-in situation, after PSV themselves did so against Deportivo de La Coruña in 2003.
*In the Champions League overall, such goal (from a direct shot after a throw-in) happened last on 7 November 2018 (Jonas for Benfica against Ajax).
*Malik Tillman is the 4th US player to score and assist in a Champions League game, after DaMarcus Beasley (2007), Fabian Johnson (2015) and Christian Pulisic (2017).
*Girona have scored 4 own goals in just 4 Champions League games this season, the most of any team in a single edition in competition's history.
Gazzaniga committed own goal vs PSG, Yangel Herrera vs Feyenoord, Krejci vs Feyenoord and now vs PSV.
The previous “record” belonged to Fenerbahçe (3 own goals in 2007-08).
Bologna vs Monaco 0-1
*Monaco fielded a starting XI of 23 years 245 days on average, their youngest ever in a Champions League match.
*Monaco have scored from a corner take-off again having already 6 goals netted such way this season; no other team in the European top 5 has more.
*Monaco achieved their first clean sheet in the Champions League since 2 November 2016 against CSKA Moscow, ending a series of 23 consecutive matches conceding at least one goal in the competition.
*Bologna suffered their first ever home defeat in the European competitions, after 16 wins and 12 draws in the previous 28 games.
Borussia Dortmund vs Sturm Graz 1-0
*Borussia are unbeaten in 13 consecutive Champions League home matches (9 wins, 4 draws): an extended club record.
Celtic vs RB Leipzig 3-1
*RB Leipzig are the first German team to have lost all their first 4 UCL games in a season since Stuttgart in 2007-08.
If Leipzig lose vs Celtic tonight, they'll break that unwanted record.
Lille vs Juventus 1-1
*Lille have never lost a home game when Jonathan David scored in any official competition (30 wins, 8 draws in 38 such games).
*Dusan Vlahovic scored his 50th goal with Juventus in all official games.
Liverpool vs Bayer Leverkusen 4-0
*Liverpool have won their opening 4 games of a single Champions League campaign for the first time, after 2021-22.
*Luis Diaz is just the second Colombian player to score a hat-trick in the Champions League, after Faustino Asprilla for Newcastle vs Barcelona in September 1997.
*This is the 7th Liverpool’s hat-trick in Champions League, after those of Michael Owen (2002), Yossi Benayoun (2007), Philippe Coutinho (2017), Sadio Mane (2018), Diogo Jota (2020) and Mohamed Salah (2022).
Slovan Bratislava vs Dinamo Zagreb 1-4
*Dinamo Zagreb goalkeeper Danijel Zagorac is the 4th different player aged 37+ to make Champions League debut this season (also Stuani, Kashia and Kucka), the most ever in a single season.