IFFHS CONTINENTAL STATS - UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Picture : Caoimhín Kelleher has now saved 3 of the 4 penalties he has faced for Liverpool in all competitions (excluding shootouts).
Statistics on Champions’ League group stage round 5 (November 27)
Liverpool vs Real Madrid 2-0
*Real Madrid are the first Champions League winners to lose 3 games in the group stage after winning the title.
*Real Madrid have last lost 2 consecutive UCL matches by 2+ goal difference (including 1-3 vs Milan in the previous match-day) in March 2000 (vs Bayern 2-4, 1-4).
*Liverpool have beaten Real Madrid in the Champions League for the first time since the 4-0 on 10 March 2009 (under Rafael Benitez), ending an 8-game winless run vs Los Blancos (1 draw, 7 losses).
*Kylian Mbappé and Mohamed Salah, with missing penalties, both also missed thus a chance to reach 50 goal mark in UCL.
* It was the 2nd penalty that Mbappé missed in UCL after the one against RB Leipzig in 2021.
*Salah is the first Liverpool player to shot wide from the spot in the Champions League. The previously missed 7 had been stopped by the goalkeepers or hit the posts.
*Caoimhín Kelleher has now saved 3 of the 4 penalties he has faced for Liverpool in all competitions (excluding shootouts).
*Real Madrid are now the team with the joint-most missed penalties in the history of the Champions League (13), along with Bayern. The next are Barcelona (12) and Arsenal (11).
Aston Villa vs Juventus 0-0
*Juventus have kept their 11th clean sheet in all competitions in 2024-25: joint-most among teams from the top 5 European leagues, level with Inter and Bayern Munich.
*Juventus have fielded the youngest ever starting XI for an Italian team in a UCL match (average age 24 years 142 days), beating Milan's record against Atletico Madrid on 28 September 2021 (24 years 161 days).
Bologna vs Lille 1-2
*Ngal'ayel Mukau ha scored a brace with Lille at 20 years 24 days. Only 3 players did it with a French club in the Champions League being younger:
Kylian Mbappé with Monaco (18 years 113 days),
Karim Benzema with Lyon (19 years 358 days),
David Trezeguet with Monaco (20 years 7 days).
PSV Eindhoven vs Shakhtar Donetsk 3-2
*PSV were 2 goals down at half time of a home UCL game for the first time since 16 September 2008 (against Atlético Madrid, also 0-2, ended 0-3).
*PSV are the first team in the history of the Champions League to enter the final 5 minutes of a match with a 2-goal deficit and end up winning (goals by Tillman 87' and 90', Pepi 90'+5'), excluding extra times.
Monaco vs Benfica 2-3
*The first half of this game saw 6 cards handed out, joint-highest total at half-time in a Champions League match since 1992.
*Monaco have lost 8 of their last 10 home matches in the Champions League.
Dinamo Zagreb vs Borussia Dortmund 0-3
*Jamie Gittens has now scored 4 goals in the Champions League this season; only one Englishman aged under 21 has netted more in a single campaign in the competition (5, Alan Smith for Leeds in 2000-01).
Celtic vs Club Brugge 1-1
*Celtic are now unbeaten at home in 24 games in all competitions (21 wins, 3 draws); they suffered last home defeat on 16 December 2023 (0-2 vs Hearts in the Scottish league).
Crvena Zvezda vs Stuttgart 5-1
*For the first time in the history of European competitions, a Serbian/Yugoslavian club:
scored 5+ goals against a German rival,
beat a German rival with 4+ goal difference after 90 minutes (with inclusion of extra time, Crvena Zvezda did it once, in the 1996-97 Cup Winners' Cup, 4-0 against Kaiserslautern).
Sturm Graz vs Girona 1-0
*Girona became the first Spanish team to lose 4 of their first 5 UCL games.