IFFHS CONTINENTAL NEWS AND STATS - UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Picture : Lautaro Martinez is now the 2nd player to have scored in 6 different Champions League seasons with Inter, after Julio Cruz.
Statistics on Champions’ League group stage round 2 (October 1)
Arsenal vs Paris St. Germain 2-0
*Arsenal have kept 17 clean sheets in 32 games in all competitions in 2024, the 2nd most across Europe’s top 5 leagues after Real Madrid (18).
*Bukayo Saka's goal was the first direct free-kick Arsenal have scored in the Champions League since Thierry Henry vs Roma in November 2002. They have played 143 games in the competition between these events.
*Arsenal are the team PSG have faced the most in all competitions without ever winning (5 games: 3 draws, 2 losses).
*French clubs have now a series of 8 consecutive defeats in Champions League against English teams; the longest such run in history. The previous defeats of this series:
Manchester City vs Marseille 3-0 on 9 December 2020,
Manchester City vs 2-0 PSG on 4 May 2021,
Manchester City vs PSG 2-1 on 24 November 2021,
Chelsea vs Lille 2-0 on 22 February 2022,
Tottenham vs Marseille 2-0 on 7 September 2022,
Newcastle vs PSG 4-1 on 4 October 2023,
Arsenal vs Lens 6-0 on 29 November 2023.
Bayer Leverkusen vs Milan 1-0
*Bayer have been unbeaten in 10 last home matches in major European competitions (7 wins, 3 draws): the longest such series in club history.
Borussia Dortmund vs Celtic 7-1
*Borussia achieved their joint-highest victory in the Champions League alongside the 6-0 away win at Legia Warsaw in September 2016.
*Celtic are the first British team to concede 5 goals in the first half of a game in major European competition since Cwmbran Town (Wales) vs Progresul Bucharest in the 1997-98 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.
*Karim Adeyemi became the 2nd German player to score 3 goals in the first half of a Champions League match after Mario Gomez in November 2011 against Napoli (for Bayern).
*It is the 2nd Champions League match in which Borussia scores 5+ goals in the first half. They also did it vs Legia Warszawa in 2016 (5-2 at half-time and 8-4 at the end).
*Borussia equalled a record for the most goals (10) in the first 2 matches of a Champions League season, along with Bayern in 2019-20 and Real Madrid in 2013-14.
Barcelona vs Young Boys 5-0
*Lamine Yamal has now started more Champions League games (9) while aged under-18 than any other player in the competition's history, overtaking Jude Bellingham and Warren Zaïre-Emery (both 8).
*Robert Lewandowski, with his brace, has become just the 2nd player in Champions League history to score 50+ goals (51) after turning 30 years of age, following Cristiano Ronaldo (68).
*Young Boys became Lewandowski’s 35 victim in Champions League. Only Messi (40) and Cristiano Ronaldo (38) have scored against more rivals.
Slovan Bratislava vs Manchester City 0-4
*Manchester City are now unbeaten in last 25 Champions League games (17 wins, 8 draws); the joint-longest run without defeat in the history of competition since 1955 (that is including European Cup era), level with Manchester United (between September 2007 and May 2009).
*Manchester City have now won 13 Champions League games by a margin of 4+ goals under Pep Guardiola, the most by a coach with the same team in the competition (overtaking Alex Ferguson's 12 such wins with Manchester United).
*Phil Foden is one of only 4 players to have scored in each of the last 7 Champions League seasons (since 2018-19), along with Robert Lewandowski, Kylian Mbappé and Antoine Griezmann.
RB Salzburg vs Brest 0-4
*RB Salzburg lost each of their last 5 Champions League home games.
This defeat is their joint-largest suffered in UCL at home (along with a 2-6 defeat vs Bayern in 2020).
*Brest are the first French team other than PSG to win by 4+ goals in the Champions League since Lyon vs Dinamo Zagreb in 2011 (7-1).
PSG has achieved this 14 times in the meantime.
*The first matches of Brest in any official international competition were won in the Champions League (after 2-1 at Sturm Graz), a feat unprecedented in the history of European football.
*Brest are the 2nd team in UCL history that scored 4+ goals in their first away game in the competition, after Atlético Madrid, which won 4-1 at Widzew Łódź on 25 September 1996.
Inter vs Crvena Zvezda 4-0
*Lautaro Martinez is now the 2nd player to have scored in 6 different Champions League seasons with Inter, after Julio Cruz.
*Hakan Çalhanoglu has scored the first Inter’s goal from a direct free kick in the Champions League since 6 April 2010 (Wesley Sneijder against CSKA Moscow).
Stuttgart vs Sparta Prague 1-1
*Kaan Kairinen is the first Sparta’s player to score from a direct free kick in the Champions League since Jiri Jarosik (on 20 March 2002 against Porto).
*Kairinen is the 3rd Finnish player to score in both his first two UCL games, after Jari Litmanen (with Ajax in 1994) and Mika Kottila (with HJK in 1998).
PSV Eindhoven vs Sporting Lisbon 1-1
*Jerdy Schouten is the first player to score from outside the box for PSV in the Champions League home game since Pablo Rosario against Inter on 3 October 2018.