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Picture : Michael Olise (Bayern) has recorded 5 goals in his first Champions League campaign.
Statistics on Champions’ League: Play-off Round, 1st leg (February 12)
Monaco vs Benfica 0-1
*Monaco have not won any of their last 9 matches against Portuguese clubs in the European Cup/Champions League (2 draws, 7 defeats).
*Monaco have lost 10 of their last 15 home matches in the Champions League.
*Monaco have received 3 red cards in the Champions League this season (Moatasem Al Musrati did it vs Benfica): more than any other team.
*Vangelis Pavlidis (Benfica) is the third player in UCL history to score as a visitor in 2 different games at the same stadium within the same edition, after:
Cristiano Ronaldo at Westfalen-Stadion in Dortmund (2012-13),
Neymar at the Parc des Princes in Paris (2014-15).
*Pavlidis is the first Greek player to score 6+ goals in the same edition of the European Cup/Champions League since Antonis Antoniadis who scored 10 goals with Panathinaikos in the 1970-71 season.
Celtic vs Bayern 1-2
*Michael Olise (Bayern) has recorded 5 goals in his first Champions League campaign.
Among the French players, only Thierry Henry (7) and Kylian Mbappé (6) did better at their UCL debut.
*Harry Kane has scored his 19th goal against Kasper Schmeichel in his career for club and country, 5 more than he has scored against any other goalkeeper.
*It was Kane’s 46th goal involvement in the UCL; he is now in the top three English players for goals + assists in the Champions League, behind only David Beckham (52) and Wayne Rooney (47).
*Kane is the 13th player (and first Englishman) to reach 60 goals in the history of European competitions: 36 in Champions League, 18 in Europa League and 6 in Conference League.
Feyenoord vs Milan 1-0
*For the first time, Feyenoord have defeated 3 clubs who were European champions (Benfica, Bayern and Milan) within the same European season.
*Milan are the first team to lose a knockout stage match in the European Cup/Champions League against Feyenoord since Coleraine on 2 October 1974.
*Feyenoord are the first Dutch side to win a home game in the Champions League knockout stage since PSV in February 2007 (1-0 vs Arsenal).
*Igor Paixão's goal at 2 minutes 56 seconds is the fastest Feyenoord goal in the European Cup/Champions League since September 1971 (Willem van Hanegem, 3rd minute).
*Givairo Read is the third youngest Dutchman (18 years 255 days) to start a Champions League knockout stage game, after:
Patrick Kluivert (18 years 243 days) in March 1995,
Kiki Musampa (18 years 244 days) in March 1996.
Club Brugge vs Atalanta 2-1
*Club Brugge have for the first time won a UCL direct elimination match.
They last won a match in the knockout phase at so advanced stage of the European Cup on 21 October 1992 (2-0 against Austria Vienna, first leg of the round of 16).
*In this UCL campaign, Club Brugge have broken 2 their long negative streaks.
Before the 1-0 win over Aston Villa, they had gone 14 games without beating an English team in European competitions since 1995.
Before the newest win over Atalanta, they had gone 15 games without beating an Italian team in European competitions since 2003.
*Mario Pasalic has scored his 7th goal for Atalanta in the Champions League: joint-most with Josip Ilicic and Duván Zapata.