IFFHS CONTINENTAL NEWS - UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Picture : Santiago Giménez has now scored 4 Champions League goals with Feyenoord !
Statistics on Champions’ League group stage round 7 (January 22)
Arsenal vs Dinamo Zagreb 3-0
*Declan Rice has scored Arsenal's first goal in the opening two minutes (at 1 minute 44 seconds) of a Champions League game since Yaya Sanogo against Borussia Dortmund on 26 November 2014 (at 1 minute 11 seconds).
RB Leipzig vs Sporting Lisbon 2-1
*Yussuf Poulsen (RB Leipzig) has ended his drought (23 consecutive games without scoring in the Champions League, since December 2020). From that goal until this one vs Sporting, the Danish striker has scored 31 goals in other competitions (club and national team).
Paris St. Germain vs Manchester City 4-2
*For the first time, PSG won a UCL game after trailing by 2 goals.
It is also their first win despite being two goals down in all competitions since May 2012 (against Valenciennes in Ligue 1, 0-2 down and then 4-3 win).
*PSG scored 4 goals in the 2nd half for the 2nd time in their Champions League history, after 22 October 2019 against Club Brugge.
*PSG failed to lead at at half-time in all last 8 games at the Parc des Princes in the Champions League.
*It is the 9th time that Manchester City have failed to win a game in which they were ahead in all competitions this season.
*Man City have lost a game in all competitions where they led by 2+ goals for the first time in the last 115 such occasions.
*At the end of October 2024, Man City set the record for the longest ever unbeaten run in Champions League history (26 games).
Since then, they lost 3 of their 4 games (and tied 1).
Real Madrid vs RB Salzburg 5-1
*Vinicius has reached 100 goals with Real Madrid in all competitions, becoming 2nd Brazilian player to reach this milestone with «Los Blancos» after Ronaldo (104).
Overall, Vinicius became the 23rd player to score 100 goals in official competitions with Real Madrid.
*For the first time in the 123-year history of Real Madrid, 54 consecutive goals (in all official competitions) have been scored by players not eligible for Spain.
Sparta Prague vs Inter 0-1
*Lautaro Martínez scored his 14th goal in UCL , joining Adriano as Inter's best scorer in the competition.
Feyenoord vs Bayern 3-0
*Santiago Giménez has scored 4 Champions League goals this campaign, the joint most by a Feyenoord player in a single season (alongside Jon Dahl Tomasson in 1999-00).
*Feyenoord are only the 3rd team to score and concede 15+ goals in their first 7 games of a Champions League campaign, after Porto (2017-18) and Tottenham Hotspur (2019-20).
Milan vs Girona 1-0
*Rafael Leão is the first Milan player to score in 3 successive UCL matches after Zlatan Ibrahimovic (5 in a row, between 2011 and 2012).
*Milan won 5 UCL games in a row for the first time since 2005 (with Carlo Ancelotti).
Shakhtar Donetsk vs Brest 2-0
*Shakhtar Donetsk have lost only one of their 11 home games against French teams in the European competitions (5 wins, 5 draws). It was against PSG in the Champions League on 30 September 2015 (0-3).
Celtic vs Young Boys 1-0
Young Boys lost all their last 8 UCL games (the competition’s biggest series of defeats is 13, set by Marseille).