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Picture : Bodo Glimt impressive !
Statistics on Champions’ League: Play-off Round, 1st leg (February 18)
Bodo/Glimt vs Inter 3-1
*Inter suffered their heaviest away defeat in the knockout stages of the Champions League since 11 March 2009, at Old Trafford against Manchester United (0-2).
*Inter suffered their first away defeat against a team outside the top 5 European leagues in the Champions League in almost 20 years, since 19 September 2007, against Fenerbahçe (0-1).
*Italian clubs have conceded no fewer than 21 goals in their last 6 knockout matches in the Champions League.
*Bodo/Glimt became the first Norwegian club in history to win a knockout match in the Champions League.
*For the third time, a Norwegian team have scored 3+ goals against an Italian opponent in a European competition match.
Each time, it was Bodø/Glimt (also 3-2 against Sampdoria in 1994 and 6-1 against Roma in 2021).
*Bodø/Glimt became the first Norwegian team to win three consecutive European Cup/UEFA Champions League matches (after 3-1 vs Manchester City and 2-1 vs Atlético Madrid).
*Bodø/Glimt are only the fourth team from outside Europe's big five leagues to win three consecutive matches in a Champions League campaign, with each coming against teams from those leagues, after Panathinaikos (in 2001-02), Benfica (in 2005-06) and Zenit (in 2015-16).
*Inter are the second team in Champions League history to concede 3+ goals in four consecutive knockout stage matches (after last season’s 3-3 and 4-3 vs Barcelona in the semifinals and 0-5 vs PSG in the final).
The first such team was Bayer Leverkusen: 5 knockout stage games in a row with conceding 3+ goals between February 2005 and February 2014.
*Bodø/Glimt’s Jens Petter Hauge has scored his 5th goal in this Champions League campaign: a joint record for players of Norwegian teams in a single UCL season
John Carew (in 1999-00) and Frode Johnsen (in 2000-01) did it before, both for Rosenborg.
*Francesco Pio Esposito became Inter's second-youngest scorer (20 years and 235 days) in the Champions League knockout stages, after Obafemi Martins (18 years and 126 days) n 2003.
Olympiakos vs Bayer Leverkusen 0-2
*Bayer secured an away win in the knockout stage of the Champions League for the first time in their history, after 2 draws and 7 losses in 9 previous such matches.
*Patrik Schick is the second player to score a brace for Bayer in a Champions League knockout match, after Michael Ballack in the 2001-02 quarter-final second leg against Liverpool (4-2).
Club Brugge vs Atlético Madrid 3-3
*Club Brugge have scored at least 3 goals in 6 of their 7 European Cup home games this season, including qualifiers (a home loss 0-3 vs Arsenal was the only exception).
*Atlético Madrid have never won away from home in 7 European Cup/Champions League matches against Belgian clubs (2 draws, 5 defeats), making them the nation Atletico have faced most often away in the competition without ever winning.
*For the first time Atlético have conceded goals in nine consecutive European Cup/Champions League matches.
They have not kept a clean sheet in the competition since last season's second leg of Round of 16 against Real Madrid (1-0).
In European competitions overall, the current streak is the club’s second worst in history, behind only that of 14 games in a row with conceding goals dating back to 1985.
*Julián Álvarez equalled Luis Aragonés as Atlético's second-highest scorer in the European Cup/Champions League (12 goals). Ahead of both, with a huge margin, is only Antoine Griezmann (39 goals).
*Ademola Lookman became the 5th player who scored in the same Champions League season for two different teams (Atalanta and Atlético).
His predecessors:
Erling Haaland (2019-20): Red Bull Salzburg and Borussia Dortmund,
Dani Olmo (2019-20): Dinamo Zagreb and RB Leipzig,
Luis Díaz (2021-22): Porto and Liverpool,
Santiago Giménez (2024-25): Feyenoord and Milan.