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Picture : Yann Sommer has now kept eight clean sheets in just 11 Champions League games for Inter !


Statistics on Champions’ League group stage round 4 (November 6)

Crvena Zvezda vs Barcelona 2-5

*Robert Lewandowski, after a brace, became the sole top scorer with a European top 5 club this season (19 goals) ahead of Harry Kane (17).

*Raphinha became the first player to have scored 8 goals in a calendar year with Barcelona in the Champions League since Lionel Messi in 2019 (also 8).

*Raphinha has been involved in 11 goals in the Champions League in 2024 (8 goals + 3 assists), the joint-most of any player, alongside Harry Kane.

*Jules Koundé became:
the 5th defender to achieve a hat-trick of assists in a Champions League match;
the first Frenchman to achieve this in all positions since Ousmane Dembéle on 22 November 2016 (for Borussia Dortmund in the famous 8-4 game vs Legia);
the first Barcelona player to do it in a Champions League match since 3 October 2018 (Jordi Alba against Tottenham).

*Barcelona have scored 55 goles in their first 16 games of a single season in all competitions for the first time in their history (overpassing 54 goals scored in 1950/51 under Ferdinand Daucik). 

*Barça have scored 4+ goals in 3 consecutive European Cup/UCL games for the first time since 1959-60 (5-1 vs Milan, 4-0 and 5-2 vs Wolverhampton).

*Barcelona have played 7 consecutive official matches scoring 3+ goals in each for the first time since May 2017.
Without Messi, they did it last time in March 1960 (under Helenio Herrera).

*Barcelona have gone 30 consecutive official matches drawless (25 wins, 5 losses).
Their last draw was in Bilbao (0-0) on 3 March 2024.

Inter vs Arsenal 1-0

Since he joined Inter (2021/22), Hakan Çalhanoglu has scored each of his 19 penalties taken in all competitions. In the period, among those who have scored 100% of penalties in the Big 5 European leagues (all comps), he has taken the most. 

Arsenal attempted 20 shots in this match, their most without scoring in a single UEFA Champions League fixture since November 2006 against CSKA Moscow (23).

Yann Sommer has now kept eight clean sheets in just 11 Champions League games for Inter. 
His 73% clean sheet percentage is the best of any goalkeeper with 10+ appearances at a club in the competition's history.

Paris St. Germain vs Atlético Madrid 1-2

*PSG count only 4 points after their first 4 Champions League games this season, their lowest tally at this stage since 2004-05 (also 4 points).

*PSG lost as many as 5 matches in the same calendar year in the European Cup/UCL for the first time in their history.

*Warren Zaïre-Emery became the youngest goalscorer (18 years 243 days) at the Parc des Princes in Champions League (regardless, for or against PSG), ahead of Kylian Mbappé (18 years 337 days against Celtic in November 2017). 

Club Brugge vs Aston Villa 1-0

*Tyrone Mings (Aston Villa) is the first English player to concede a penalty on his Champions League debut.

Sparta Prague vs Brest 1-2

*Brest won 3 of their first 4 Champions League matches; Strasbourg were the only other French club to have reached 3 wins in European Cup/UCL so quickly (in 1979). 

*With Aston Villa's defeat against Club Brugge, Brest remain the only club to be undefeated so far (3 wins, 1 draw) in the whole UCL history (since 1992).

*Brest became the first French team to have scored 9 goals in their first 4 matches in European Cup/UCL since Nantes in 1966 (10).

Stuttgart vs Atalanta 0-2

*Inter and Atalanta are the only two teams that haven’t conceded a goal in Champions League this season.

*Atalanta have won 54% of their away games in the Champions League (7 out of 13): the highest percentage of away wins among teams who have played at least 10 away games in the competition's history. 

Bayern vs Benfica 1-0

*Bayern extended to 18 their series of unbeaten homes games in UCL (14 won, 4 tied).

Feyenoord vs RB Salzburg 1-3

*It was the Champions League match with most different nationalities ever (18) represented by starting players in both teams.

Shakhtar vs Young Boys 2-1

*Shakhtar have broken their winless series in Europe that lasted since 28 November 2023 (1-0 vs Antwerp) and included 6 games (2 draws, 4 losses).