IFFHS CONTINENTAL NEWS AND STATS - UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Picture : Ayyoub Bouaddi (Lille) who played on his 17th birthday became the 2nd youngest French player to start a game in Champions League.
Statistics on Champions’ League group stage round 2 (October 2)
Aston Villa vs Bayern 1-0
*Aston Villa repeated the score of 1982 European Cup final when they faced Bayern last time.
*Aston Villa’s super-sub Jhon Duran has scored his already 4th winning goal as a substitute in 2024/25 in all competitions.
*Bayern's unprecedented streak of 41 consecutive games without losing a game in the group stage of Champions League has finally ended. Their last defeat in such games was dated back to 27 September 2017 (0-3 vs PSG).
Lille vs Real Madrid 1-0
*Real Madrid ended their two long unbeaten series:
of 36 consecutive games in all competitions (they were 4 away from equaling the club’s historical record of 40 consecutive games; this one is 2nd best such run in the club’s history),
of 14 consecutive games without losing in the European Cup/Champions League (here they were just 1 game away from equaling their best achievement).
“Los Blancos” lost a competitive game last time on 18 January (2-4 vs Atlético in the national Cup).
*Real Madrid have lost each of their last 3 away games against French sides in the Champions League, without scoring each time, including 0-3 vs PSG in 2019 and 0-1 vs PSG in 2022.
*Aged at 18 years 73 days, Endrick became the youngest even Real Madrid starter in a UCL game, surpassing Raul’s record from September 1995 vs Ajax (18 years 78 days).
*Ayyoub Bouaddi (Lille) who played on his 17th birthday became the 2nd youngest French player to start a game in Champions League, after Warren Zaire-Emery (started with PSG at 16 years 343 days in February 2023.
*Lille have never yet lost a home competitive game when Jonathan David, the author of winning goal vs Real Madrid, had scored (30 wins, 6 draws).
Liverpool vs Bologna 2-0
*Mohamed Salah has become the highest-scoring African player in Champions League history (45 goals), surpassing Didier Drogba (44).
*Salah is the 3rd player to score in 5+ consecutive Champions League home games for a Premier League side, after Thierry Henry with Arsenal (7) and Ruud van Nistelrooy with Manchester United (6).
Girona vs Feyenoord 2-3
*After losing 8 consecutive away games, Feyenoord have finally won their first Champions League match away from home since September 2002 (1-0 at Newcastle).
*Girona are the first team in Champions League history to net an own goal in each of their first 2 games in the competition.
*Girona are also the first team in the history of Champions League whose first 2 goals conceded in the tournament are own goals (Paulo Gazzaniga vs PSG in the first round and now Yangel Herrera).
*After just two games, Girona have already equalled the record for most own goals (3, including also the Ladislav Krejci own goal) conceded by a team in a single Champions League campaign (Fenerbahçe in 2007-08).
*Girona are the first Spanish team to debut in the European Cup/Champions League with 2 defeats.
*It was the first match in the UCL history with 2 own goals and 2 missed penalties.
Shakhtar Donetsk vs Atalanta 0-3
*Ademola Lookman is only the 2nd player in the history of Atalanta who has both scored a goal and provided an assist in the same UCL match, after Duván Zapata (twice).
RB Leipzig vs Juventus 2-3
*Dusan Vlahovic (Juventus) is one of the only 3 players from the top 5 European leagues to have already scored 2+ goals in 3 different games across all competitions in the 2024-25 season (against Hellas Verona, Genoa and RB Leipzig), alongside Erling Haaland and Robert Lewandowski.
*Juventus is the 2nd team in the history of the Champions League to come back (to win) an away game while playing outnumbered, after Manchester City (against Schalke, on 20 February 2019).
Benfica vs Atlético Madrid 4-0
*For the first time in Champions League history, two Turkish players have scored for a non-Turkish team in a single match (Orkun Kökçü and Kerem Aktürkoglu).
*For the first time in Champions League history, 3 Spanish teams have lost in a single day (Girona, Atlético Madrid and Real Madrid).
*This is the biggest win in the UCL history (since 1992) by a Portuguese team over a Spanish oppposition.
The similar happened once in the era of European Cup (Benfica vs Real Madrid 5-1 in 1965) as well as once in Fairs Cup (Sporting vs Valencia 4-0 in 1968) and once in UEFA Cup (Porto vs Villarreal 5-1 in 2011).
*Atlético Madrid equaled their worst defeat in the history of European competitions. With Diego Simeone on bench, only Borussia Dortmund (4-0 in 2018) and Bayern (4-0 in 2020) had beaten them so severely.
Sturm Graz vs Club Brugge 0-1
*Christos Tzolis became the youngest Greek player (22 years 246 days) to score in Champions League since Dimitris Nikolau did it for Olympiacos against Barcelona being aged 19 in 2017.
Dinamo Zagreb vs Monaco 2-2
*Monaco have gained 4 points after their first 2 matches during a UCL season for the first time since 2016-17 (also 4) when they reached the semi-finals.
*Monaco have conceded at least 1 goal in each of their last 22 Champions League matches.