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Picture : Ousmane Dembélé has scored 2nd hat-trick in his professional career.
Statistics on Champions’ League group stage round 8 (January 29) – Part 1
64 goals have been scored in the Champions League on 29 January; only one day in the history of competition, including the European Cup era, have seen more goals scored: 66 on 16 September 1970.
Lille vs Feyenoord 6-1
*Feyenoord are the first ever team to score 3 own goals in a single European Cup/Champions League game.
*Gernot Trauner (Feyenoord) is the first ever player in the competition history to score 2 own goals in a match.
*Feyenoord have collected 4 own goals in this UCL campaign; the same number as Girona. Both share now the competition’s record on own goals withon a single season.
The previous record holders were Fenerbahçe: 3 own goals in 2007-08.
*Feyenoord have suffered their joint biggest loss in a European match (along with 0-5 vs Real Madrid in 1965).
*Feyenoord has conceded 6 goals in a single European match for the first time ever in the club history.
On the other side, Lille scored 6 goals in a European Cup match for the first time in their history.
*Santiago Giménez is now the joint-third scorer of Feyenoord in the Champions League/European Cup: 7 goals.
Van Hanegem (10) and Schoenmaker (8) are ahead of him, Kindwall and Tomasson also scored 7.
*Gimenez became the third Mexican player to score 5 goals during a Champions League/European Cup season, after Hugo Sanchez in 1988-89 and Javier Hernandez in 2015-16.
Stuttgart vs Paris St. Germain 1-4
*For the second time in UCL history, two French clubs have scored at least 4 goals on the same day, after 8 December 2004 (5-0 victories of Lyon and Monaco vs Sparta Prague and Deportivo respectively).
*Ousmane Dembélé has scored 2nd hat-trick in his professional career (after that with Rennes against Nantes on 6 March 2016) and 5th hat-trick by a PSG player in UCL (after Zlatan Ibrahimović, Layvin Kurzawa, Kylian Mbappé and Neymar).
Inter vs Monaco 3-0
*Inter became the first team to keep a clean sheet in 6 consecutive Champions League home matches since Atlético Madrid in September 2016 (also 6) and the first Italian team to do so since Juventus in September 2005 (also 6).
*Lautaro Martinez became Inter's joint-top scorer in UCL (17 goals), tied with Sandro Mazzola.
*Lautaro Martinez scored the first Inter’s hat-trick in Champions League since Samuel Eto'o (vs Werder Bremen on 29 September 2010).
Young Boys vs Crvena Zvezda 0-1
*With an average age of 24 years 201 days, Young Boys fielded their youngest ever Champions League starting lineup.
Bayern vs Slovan Bratislava 3-1
*Bayern Munich are now unbeaten in 34 home games (32 win, 2 draws) in the group/league stage of the Champions League: the longest ever such run in the competition's history (Barcelona had 33-game run between 2009 and 2020).
Borussia Dortmund vs Shakhtar Donetsk 3-1
*Serhou Guirassy (Borussia) has averaged a goal or assist every 51 minutes in this season's Champions League (9+2): the best minutes per goal involvement ratio by any player with 300+ minutes played.
Dinamo Zagreb vs Milan 2-1
*Milan have conceded 2+ goals in two away matches in a row in the same edition of the Champions League (2 against both Real Madrid and Dinamo Zagreb) for the first time since the streak of 3 in 2011-12.
Juventus vs Benfica 0-2
*For the 4th time in this Champions League season, Juventus did not score any goal: in no edition of the competition has this happened more times (4 also in 2014-15 and 2003-04).
Manchester City vs Club Brugge 3-1
*Manchester City are unbeaten in their last 35 Champions League home games (30 wins, 5 draws), with only Bayern Munich (43 games in 1969-1991) and Barcelona (38 games in 2013-2020) recording longer streaks without a home defeat in the competition (including European Cup era).