IFFHS CONTINENTAL STATS - UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Picture : Serhou Guirassy became the first African player to score a hat-trick against Barcelona in the Champions League.
Statistics on Champions’ League: Quarter-finals, 2nd leg (April 15)
Borussia Dortmund vs Barcelona 3-1 (agg 3-5)
*Barcelona will contest the Champions League semi-finals for the 13th time in their history, the first time since 2018-19, ending their longest run without reaching that round (5 seasons).
*Barcelona suffered their first defeat in 2025, after 20 wins and 4 draws in 24 previous games: the best unbeaten start in a single year in their history.
It is also the first defeat personally for Wojciech Szczęsny after joining Barcelona.
*Bensebaini's own goal puts Barcelona on a par with Real Madrid as teams with the most own goals in their favor (19) in the history of the Champions League.
*No team from the top five European leagues has benefited this season from more own goals than Barcelona in all competitions (5, along with Como).
*Serhou Guirassy is the first ever player to score a hat-trick in a Champions League knockout match and end up eliminated.
*Guirassy is the first player to score a perfect hat-trick (goals by left foot, right foot and head) against Barcelona in the history of the Champions League.
*This is the 3rd UCL perfect hat-trick in XXI century, after:
Sébastien Haller (Ajax, vs Sporting 5-1) on 15 September 2021,
Erling Haaland (Manchester City, vs RB Leipzig 7-0) on 14 March 2023.
*Barcelona have conceded their 2nd hat-trick in UCL this season (also from Vangelis Pavlidis vs Benfica).
Only once before in their history, they conceded 2 hat-tricks in a single European season, in 1997-98 (from Faustino Asprilla vs Newcastle and from Andriy Shevchenko vs Dinamo Kyiv).
*Serhou Guirassy became the first African player to score a hat-trick against Barcelona in the Champions League.
*Also he is now the player with most goals scored against Barcelona in a single edition of the competition (5), surpassing Kylian Mbappé (4 goals vs Barça in 2020-21).
*Guirassy broke the Borussia Dortmund’s club record for goals a single UCL campaign (13), jointly held by Erling Haaland (2020-21) and Robert Lewandowski (2012-13) with 10 each.
Aston Villa vs Paris St. Germain 3-2 (agg 4-5)
*PSG have qualified for the Champions League semi-finals for the fifth time in history, after 1995, 2020, 2021, and 2024: a record for a French club at this stage of the competition, ahead of Monaco (4).
*Overall, PSG will play in their 9th semi-final in a major European competition (also 3 in the Cup Winners' Cup and 1 in the UEFA Cup), more than any other French club (Marseille 8, Monaco 7).
*PSG have scored 30 goals in the Champions League this season, breaking the record for a French club in a single season in the competition (29 for Lyon in 2004-05).
*French clubs have won a Champions League quarter-final tie in all their last 6 cases (a;so Monaco 2016-17, Lyon and Paris Saint-Germain 2019-20, Paris Saint-Germain 2020-21, 2023-24, Paris Saint-Germain 2024/25), their best run of this kind.
The last time a French club was eliminated at this stage of the competition was Paris Saint-Germain against Manchester City in 2015-16.
*PSG have conceded 3+ goals in a competitive match for the first time this season.
*Luis Enrique is the first coach to qualify Paris Saint-Germain for the European Cup semi-finals in two consecutive seasons.
*Luis Enrique becomes the 4th coach to reach the semi-finals in 2 seasons with a French club in the Champions League, after:
Albert Batteux with Reims,
Robert Herbin with St. Etienne,
Raymond Goethals with Marseille.
*For the first time in the same Champions League knockout match, the right-back (Achraf Hakimi) and the left-back (Nuno Mendes) of the same team have scored both.
Nuno Mendes has most goals (4) by a defender in the UCL this season while Hakimi provided joint-most assists (5) by a defender, along with Atalanta’s Davide Zappacosta.
*Achraf Hakimi has 7 goal involvements for Paris SG this season in the Champions League (2 goals, 5 assists): the highest total by a defender in a single edition of the competition since Marcelo in 2017-18 (also 7 for Rela Madrid).