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Statistics on Champions’ League: Play-off Round, 1st leg (February 11)
Manchester City vs Real Madrid 2-3
*Real Madrid became the first club to have reached 300 victories in the European Cup/Champions League, ahead of Bayern (241) and Barcelona (209).
*Real Madrid have won away from home, thanks to a goal in added time scored by Jude Bellingham (picture) for the first time in a European Cup tie.
*Real Madrid achieved their first away Champions League win vs Man City, after 6 previous winless games (3 draws, 3 losses).
*Real Madrid are now the only rival in Guardiola's career that have beaten him, in his own stadium, with all the teams he has coached.
They beat him once 2-1 in Barcelona and 4-0 in Munich.
*Carlo Ancelotti became the coach with the most European Cup/Champions League appearances for Real Madrid (72), surpassing Miguel Muñoz (71). the next are Vicente Del Bosque (60), Zinedine Zidane (53), Jose Mourinho (36).
*Man City have now conceded 7 goals in the last 15 minutes in the UCL this season, more than any other side.
*Manchester City conceded their first home UCL defeat since 19 September 2018 (against Lyon), ending a run of 34 consecutive games without defeat at the Etihad Stadium in the competition.
*Manchester City lost their first leg in a Champions League knockout stage clash for the first time since 9 April 2019 (against Tottemham).
*Pep Guardiola has lost 12 of his 38 official matches with Manchester City in 2024-25, already equaling his worst seasonal total of defeats from the bench in all competitions (12 with Manchester City in 2019-20).
*Erling Haaland has finally scored a Champions League goal against Real Madrid; it took him 378 minutes of action and 14 shots for this.
*Haaland totalized 53 goals during his career in UCL (including qualifiers): the best total in history of European Cup since 1955 for a player before turning 25, ahead of Lionel Messi whoc scored 52 goals before this age point.
Brest vs Paris St. Germain 0-3
*This is first ever tie between teams from the same country before the quarterfinals in the Champions League history.
In the European Cup era (1955-1992), there were 3 such occasions:
Real Madrid vs Barcelona, in 1960 (Round of 16),
Nottingham Forest vs Liverpool, in 1978 (Round of 32),
Verona vs Juventus, in 1985 (Round of 16).
*Brest have not beaten PSG for 40 years. Their last victory came on 26 January 1985 (3-1).
Since then, 22 victories for PSG and 8 draws in 30 official matches in all competitions.
In the last 18 games, the distance is even more abysmal: 17-1-0.
*PSG's last 15 games across all competitions: 14 wins and 1 draw, goal difference 43-15.
*PSG have scored 3+ goals in 4 consecutive Champions League games for just the second time, after the September-November 2017 streak under Unai Emery which included 5 such games.
*Ousmane Dembélé became the 2nd French player to score a brace against a French team on French soil in a European game after Antoine Griezmann (for Atlético Madrid against Marseille in the Europa League on 16 May 2018).
*Ousmane Dembélé, with already 15 goals for PSG in 2025, has already equalled his record for goals in a calendar year in all competitions at club level.
*Dembélé has scored 5 more goals than any other player from the European top 5 leagues in all competitions this year.
The next are Kylian Mbappé (10) and Mateo Retegui (9).
*Dembélé has scored in each of his last 8 matches in all competitions (all 8 of his games in 2015), equalling the best individual run in PSG history (Neymar twice, Bianchi and Mbappé).
Juventus vs PSV Eindhoven 2-1
*Juventus' starting XI had an average age of 25 years 172 days, their youngest ever in a UCL knockout stage match.
*At the same time, PSV fielded their oldest (27 years 259 days) starting XI in a Champions League match since 14 September 2004 (27 years 282 days vs Arsenal) and their oldest ever in a UCL knockout stage match.
*Aged 36, Ivan Perisic became the oldest PSV player to ever score a goal in the Champions League.
Sporting Lisbon vs Borussia Dortmund 0-3
*Serhou Guirassy has been involved in 13 goals in the UEFA Champions League this season (10 goals, 3 assists), the most ever by a Borussia Dortmund player in a single season in the competition.