IFFHS CONTINENTAL STATS - UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Picture : Raphinha (Barcelona) has now been directly involved in more goals (8) than any other player in the Champions League this season: 6 goals and 2 assists.
Statistics on Champions’ League group stage round 6 (December 11)
Arsenal vs Monaco 3-0
*Arsenal have won all 6 home games without conceding in the Champions League group stage since the start of last season.
*French clubs have now a series of 9 consecutive defeats in the Champions League against English teams (longest such series in their history).
*Only Mohamed Salah has been involved in more goals in all competitions (16 goals, 12 assists) among Premier League players this season than Arsenal’s Bukayo Saka (8 goals, 11 assists).
*Myles Lewis-Skelly is the youngest player (18 years 76 days) to start a Champions League match for Arsenal since Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain in September 2011 vs Olympiakos (18 years 44 days).
Borussia Dortmund vs Barcelona 2-3
*Raphinha (Barcelona) has now been directly involved in more goals (8) than any other player in the Champions League this season: 6 goals and 2 assists.
*Ferran Torres became the 4th Barcelona player to score a brace in Champions League, after:
Lionel Messi in 2008 (vs Shakhtar Donetsk),
Cristian Tello in 2012 (vs Bayer Leverkusen),
Ivan Rakitic in 2015 (vs BATE Borisov).
Ferran Torres is the only of these 4 to do so after coming on as late as after the 70th minute.
*Barcelona are the first team to beat Borussia at their Westfalenstadion in a European game in more than 3 years (since 1-3 against Ajax on 3 November 2021).
Feyenoord vs Sparta Prague 4-2
*Feyenoord scored twice in the first 10 minutes, becoming the third Dutch team to do so in a Champions League game, after Willem II (against Sparta Prague in 1999) and Ajax (against Sporting in 2021).
*Feyenoord have scored 3 goals in the first half of a European Cup/Champions League game for the first time in more than 50 years, since September 1974 (against Coleraine).
Benfica vs Bologna 0-0
*Benfica won only 1 of their last 7 UCL home games (vs Atletico Madrid 4-0).
Juventus vs Manchester City 2-0
*The worst streak in the history of Pep Guardiola's career is extended now to 1 win, 2 draws, 7 losses in last 10 games in all competitions.
*Since the start of November, Manchester City have conceded more goals across all competitions than any other team from Europe's big 5 leagues (21 in 9 games).
*Bernardo Silva is now Manchester City's all-time UCL appearance record holder (74 games).
Stuttgart vs Young Boys 5-1
*Fabian Rieder (Stuttgart) is the first Swiss player to assist 3 goals in a single UCL match.
Atlético Madrid vs Slovan Bratislava 3-1
*Atlético Madrid won last 10 games across all competitions, for 2nd time in their history, after 13-game run in 2012-13.
All three longest such runs of the club (also 9-game in 2015-16) were achieved under Diego Simeone.
*Atlético Madrid have scored 3+ goals in 5 games across all competitions in a row (also vs Sparta Praga 6-0, vs Valladolid 5-0, vs Cacereño 3-1, vs Sevilla 4-3).
They had last a scoring similar streak between March and May 1950 under Helenio Herrera (6 games: 5-3 vs Real Sociedad, 3-1 vs Oviedo, 4-4 vs Valencia, 3-4 and 4-2 vs Málaga, 6-3 vs Real Madrid).
*Antoine Griezmann has scored 36 goals for Atlético Madrid in the UCL, all under Diego Simeone. Only Messi under Pep Guardiola (43) and Salah under Jürgen Klopp (41) have scored more goals under the same manager in the competition.
*For the first time in the history of the Champions League, two sons coincide on the pitch (Vladimir Weiss Jr and Giuliano Simeone) and their respective fathers (Vladimir Weiss Sr and Diego Simeone) on the benches as coaches in the same Mac