IFFHS CONTINENTAL NEWS AND STATS - UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Picture : Raphinha, in his 100th game with Barcelona, became the 4th Brazilian to score a hat-trick for the club in the Champions League, after Rivaldo, Ronaldinho and Neymar.
Statistics on Champions’ League group stage round 3 (October 23)
Barcelona vs Bayern 4-1
*Barcelona's starting XI has their lowest average age (24 years 185 days) in the Champions League since November 2011 against BATE Borisov (23 years 93 days).
*Barcelona have scored 4 goals against Bayern Munich for the second time in their Champions League history, after doing so in April 2009 under Pep Guardiola (4-0).
*Bayern have lost 2 consecutive games in the first phase of the Champions League (also 0-1 vs Aston Villa) for the first time since 2009.
*Bayern conceded 4 goals in a group stage match in the Champions League for the first time.
*Raphinha, in his 100th game with Barcelona, became the 4th Brazilian to score a hat-trick for the club in the Champions League, after Rivaldo, Ronaldinho and Neymar.
*Raphinha is the 4th player to score a hat-trick against Bayern in European Cup/UCL history, after:
Roy Makaay (Deportivo, 2002),
Sergio Agüero (Manchester City, 2014),
Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid, 2017).
Besides, Alun Evans (Liverpool, 1971) scored anti-Bayern hat-trick in UEFA Cup.
*Vinícius Júnior and Raphinha are the 4th pair of players from the same country to score a hat-trick on the same UCL match-day, after:
Agüero and Messi (Argentina, twice in 2014 and 2016),
Giroud and Benzema (France, 2015).
*The first of Raphinha’s goals, scored after 57 seconds from kick-off, is Barcelona's 3rd earliest in Champions League, after:
Mark van Bommel vs Panathinaikos in 2005 (40 seconds),
Sonny Anderson vs Manchester United in 1998 (51 seconds).
*At the same time, this Raphinha's goal became the earliest ever conceded by Bayern in Champions League.
It suprasses goals of Rooney (Manchester United, 1 minute 3 seconds) in 2010 and Dani Alves (PSG, 1 minute 24 seconds) in 2017.
*The first Raphinha's goal has also stopped Bayern's amazing series of consecutive goals against Barcelona.
Before it, all 15 last goals in this rivalry were Bayern’s goals: the last 4 in the famous 8-2 game of 2020, then 6 in 2021 (3-0, 3-0) and 5 in 2022 (2-0, 3-0).
*Five of Serge Gnabry's total 8 assists in the Champions League (including the one he made now for Kane’s goal) have come against Barcelona.
Only Neymar (8 against Celtic) has recorded more assists against a single opponent in the competition's history.
*Robert Lewandowski is the 3rd former Bayern’s player to score a goal against them in the Champions League, after Elber (with Lyon) and Podolski (with Arsenal).
Manchester City vs Sparta Prague 5-0
*Erling Haaland, after his brace, extended his goal tally in the Champions League to 44 (in 42 games); 21 of them came with Manchester City (in 23 appearances).
Only Ruud van Nistelrooy has scored 20+ UCL goals for the same club taking fewer games (20 in 21 games for Manchester United).
Atlético Madrid vs Lille 1-3
*Lille became the 3rd team in the Champions League to beat both Atlético Madrid and Real Madrid in a single edition, after Chelsea in 2020-21 and Manchester City in 2021-22.
*Atlético Madrid have conceded 7 goals (4 from Benfica and 3 from Lille) in 2 consecutive games in the same season for the first time in the history of the European Cup/Champions League.
*Jonathan David (Canada), a brace scorer, became the first CONCACAF player to score against both Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid in the history of the Champions League.
*Jonathan David became the first Lille player to score 28 (or more) goals in official competitions during a calendar year since Fernand Devlaminck in 1957 (39).
*French clubs have won 8 of their last 9 Champions League clashes against Spanish teams.
Young Boys vs Inter 0-1
*For the first time in their history, Inter have kept 3 clean sheets in the first 3 games of a Champions League edition.
Benfica vs Feyenoord 1-3
*Feyenoord have scored 3+ goals in consecutive European Cup/Champions League games for the first time since 1974.
*Aged 19 years and 203 days, Antoni Milambo is the second youngest Dutchman to score in consecutive Champions League games, after Patrick Kluivert in 1995 (19 years 109 days).
Brest vs Bayer Leverkusen 1-1
*Brest (2 wins, 1 draw) is the first French team to remain undefeated in their first 3 European Cup/UCL matches since Lens in 1998 (1 win, 2 draws).
This is the best start for a French club in the competition since Bordeaux in 1984 (also 2 wins and 1 draw).
*Florian Wirtz (Bayer) reached 15 goals in European Cup/UCL becoming 6th player to do so in all major European competitions at the aged of 21 or younger, after: Erling Haaland (23 goals at this age), Kylian Mbappé (21), Ronaldo (20), Lionel Messi (17) and Eusébio (15).
RB Leipzig vs Liverpool 0-1
*Liverpool have won their opening 3 games in an UCL edition for the 3rd time, after 2020-21 and 2021-22.
*For the first time in their history, Liverpool have won:
all their first 6 away games of a single season,
11 of their first 12 games of a single season.
Atalanta vs Celtic 0-0
*Mario Pasalic (Atalanta) became just the 3rd player across the last 8 seasons to have missed 5+ big chances in a Champions League game and not found the net, after:
Marco Reus (Borussia Dortmund) vs Barcelona in 2019,
Arkadiusz Milik (Napoli) vs Genk also in 2019.
RB Salzburg vs Dinamo Zagreb 0-2
*This is the first away win of Dinamo Zagreb in UCL since 25 November 1998 (1-0 vs Ajax).