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Picture : Désiré Doué became the 3rd French players who scored in the Champions League from the quarter-finals onwards before turning 20, after Kylian Mbappé (3 such goals) and Ousmane Dembélé (1).
Statistics on Champions’ League: Quarter-finals, 1st leg (April 9)
Barcelona vs Borussia Dortmund 4-0
*In this game, two coaches with the lowest defeat rate in Champions League history (of all with at least 10 games) have faced each other: Dortmund’s Niko Kovac (6.7%) and Barcelona’s Hansi Flick (7.1%).
*Barcelona have not lost yet any of their 23 games in 2025 in all competitions (19 wins, 4 draws), the best unbeaten start in a single year in their history.
Their previous best start of the year was in 2016: 22-game unbeaten run (19 wins, 3 draws).
*Barcelona scored already 145 goals in 48 games across all competitions this season, challenging the record for goals scored by a Spanish team in a season: 190 goals in 64 games for Guardiola and Messi's Barça in 2011-12.
*Raphinha has scored 12 goals in the 2024-25 Champions League; only Lionel Messi in 2011-12 scored more (14 goals) for Barcelona in a single Champions League campaign (12 also for Messi in 2010-11 and 2018-19).
*Raphinha (with 1 goal, 2 assists past night) became the first player in Champions League history to record both 10+ goals and 5+ assists in a single campaign (now he is at 12 goals, 7 assists).
*Raphinha’s 19 goal involvements in Champions League is the joint-most ever by a Barcelona player in a single edition of the competition (level with Lionel Messi in 2011-12).
*Raphinha has also achieved most goal involvements by a Brazilian player in a single Champions League campaign, ahead of Roberto Firmino (2017-18, 17 for Liverpool) and Kaka (2006-07, 13 for Milan).
*Robert Lewandowski equaled Karim Benzema as the third-highest scorer in Champions League knockout matches (34 each), only behind Cristiano Ronaldo (67) and Leo Messi (49).
*Lewandowski became the oldest player (36 years 231 days) to score a brace in the knockout stages of the Champions League.
*Lewandowski has scored more goals against Borussia Dortmund across all competitions (29 in 28 matches) than he has against any other team in his career. His next favorite victims are:
Wolfsburg, 26 goals in 26 games,
Ausgburg, 23 in 19,
Schalke, 21 in 24.
*Pau Cubarsí (Barcelona) is the youngest defender (18 years 77 days) in Champions League history to provide an assist, surpassing Vincent Kompany's record (18 years 193 days) of October 2004 with Anderlecht.
*Lamine Yamal is the youngest ever player (17 years 270 days) to reach 20 UCL appearances.
In the ranking for players with most UCL appearances before the age of 18, Yamal has twice more than the next after him (Youri Tielemans, Jude Bellingham, Warren Zaïre-Emery, Pau Cubarsí and Geovany Quenda, 10 for each).
*Yamal is the third player to score in the Champions League from the quarter-finals onwards before turning 18, after Bojan Krkic (17 years 217 days) and Jude Bellingham (17 years 289 days).
Paris St. Germain vs Aston Villa 3-1
*PSG have now beaten Manchester City, Liverpool and Aston Villa this season: the 4th time a team has beaten 3 Premier League teams in the same Champions League campaign, after:
Bayern Munich in 2013-14,
Barcelona in 2018-19,
Real Madrid in 2021-22.
*PSG have won their 7th match after conceding the opening goal this season (6 of 7 such matches came in 2025), equalling their highest total of wins after conceding the first goal in a season in their history (7 also in 1985-86 and 2003-04).
*PSG have won at the Parc des Princes from the quarter-final stage onwards in the Champions League for the first time since 2 April 2014 (3-1 against Chelsea).
*PSG have scored 3 goals at the Parc des Princes in a UCL knockout phase against a foreign team for the first time since 14 February 2017 (4-0 against Barcelona).
*PSG have scored 28 goals in the Champions League this season. This is their new record for a single season in the competition (surpassing 27 in 2017-18).
This is so far 1 goal fewer to Lyon’s record for all French teams in UCL: 29 goals in 2004-05.
*Désiré Doué became the 3rd French players who scored in the Champions League from the quarter-finals onwards before turning 20, after Kylian Mbappé (3 such goals) and Ousmane Dembélé (1).
*It was Luis Enrique’s 100th game in official competition as the PSG coach (70 wins, 19 draws, 11 losses).