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Picture : Club Brugge's Chemsdine Talbi became the fourth youngest player (19 years 285 days) to score a brace in a Champions League knockout phase match.
Statistics on Champions’ League: Play-off Round, 2nd leg (February 18)
Atalanta vs Club Brugge 1-3
*A Belgian team eliminated an Italian rival over two legs in the European Cup/Champions League for the first time since Anderlecht overcame Juventus in 1981.
*For the first time in the history of European competitions, a Belgian team has scored 3+ goals against an Italian rival on Italian soil.
*Club Brugge's Chemsdine Talbi became the fourth youngest player (19 years 285 days) to score a brace in a Champions League knockout phase match, after Kylian Mbappé (18-113), Erling Haaland (19-212) and Nicolò Zaniolo (19-225).
*Talbi is also the youngest ever Belgian to score a brace in the Champions League.
*Ademola Lookman (Atalanta) scored 34 secondes after coming on: the quickest goal by a sub in this UCL campaign.
The second behind him is Ilenikhena (Monaco) who also scored last night (vs Benfica), taking 46 secondes.
Another two players to score less than a minute after coming on are:
Pereira Lage (Brest vs Salzbourg) : 47 secondes,
Haraldsson (Lille vs Sturm Graz) : 59 secondes.
Bayern vs Celtic 1-1
*Celtic's Nicolas Kühn is the first German to score his first 3 Champions League goals against German teams.
Only Lothar Matthäus (1980-1981, UEFA Cup) and Wolfgang Funkel (1985-86, Cup Winners' Cup) had previously achieved this in European competitions.
*Nicolas Kühn is also the first German to score against Bayern Munich in a Champions League knockout round game since Lukas Podolski for Arsenal in March 2014.
*Celtic is the first Scottish team to take the lead on Bayern's field since Celtic itself did so in 2003.
*Alphonso Davies' goal (at 93'13") is the latest ever scored by Bayern to overcome a Champions League tie, surpassing Linke's goal (at 92'27") to eliminate Porto in the quarter-finals of 1999-2000.
Benfica vs Monaco 3-3
*French clubs have only won one of their 22 trips to Portuguese clubs in European Cup/Champions League (5 draws, 16 defeats).
*Benfica have never lost at home against a French club in the European Cup/Champions League (13 wins, 6 draws).
*Vangelis Pavlidis is the first Benfica player in the UCL era to score 7 goals in a single edition of the Champions League.
Darwin Núñez (2021-22) and Joao Mario (2022-23) scored 6 each.
They scored less than a minute after coming on in the 2024/25 UCL:
Milan vs Feyenoord 1-1
*Feyenoord have reached the last 16 of the Champions League for the first time since 1999-00.
*Feyenoord eliminated Milan at their both ties in knockout stages of European competitions (also in European Cup’s 1969-70 Round of 16).
*Milan are eliminated from the Champions League in a direct clash against a Dutch team for just the second time, after the final lost against Ajax in 1995.
*Santiago Giménez has scored the earliest goal (36 seconds) in the 2024-25 Champions League, putting Milan ahead against his former club Feyenoord.
For Milan, it was 3rd goal scored in the 1st minute in UCL, behind:
Clarence Seedorf (22 seconds, 2005-06 vs Schalke),
Alexandre Pato (25 seconds, 2011-12 vs Barcelona).
*Milan is now the team with the most UCL goals scored (4) in the first minute (also Paolo Maldini at 51 seconds in 2004-05 vs Liverpool).
Inter and Barcelona have 3 such goals.
*Santiago Giménez became the first player to both score for and against the same team (excluding own goals) in a single Champions League campaign.
Considering European Cup era, he is the 2nd such player, after Conny Torstensson (for and against Bayern Munich in the European Cup 1973-74 ).
Giménez scored with Feyenoord on 29 January 2025 (against Lille) and against Feyenoord (with Milan), on 18 February 2025.
It is the shortest time (20 days) that a player has needed to score with a team and against that same team (not counting own goals) in the history of the European Cup/Champions League.