IFFHS CONTINENTAL NEWS - MEN'S UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Picture : Desire Doue, with his brace, has scored 6 goals in the knockout stages of the Champions League before the age of 21!
Statistics on Champions’ League: Play-off Round, 1st leg (February 17)
Galatasaray vs Juventus 5-2
*Galatasaray scored 5 goals in a Champions League match for the first time in their history.
*Juventus have conceded 5+ goals in a single European competition match for only the second time in their history, after the 0–7 defeat against Wiener SC in the 1958-59 European Cup.
*Teun Koopmeiners is the first Juventus midfielder to score multiple goals in a single knockout stage match of the Champions League since its rebranding in 1992.
Benfica vs Real Madrid 0-1
*Real Madrid have won 6 of their last 9 away games against Portuguese teams in the Champions League.
*Vinicius Junior notching a great goal became the sole 2nd best Brazilian scorer (31 goals) in Champions League history, surpassing Kaká (30).
Neymar leads the ranking with 43 goals.
*Jose Mourinho got his second red card in the Champions League. The first was in the 2011 Real Madrid vs Barça (0-2) match, after Pepe's dismissal for an incident with Dani Alves.
Borussia Dortmund vs Atalanta 2-0
*Serhou Guirassy (goal and assist past night) has been directly involved in 23 goals in the Champions League (17 goals, 6 assists) since the start of last season: more than any other player during that period.
Monaco vs Paris St. Germain 2-3
*PSG have won a Champions League match after being two goals down for only the second time in history, after the 4-2 victory against Manchester City on 22 January 2025.
*PSG have won 6 of their 8 away matches in the Champions League knockout stages under Luis Enrique.
*Monaco became the first French club in history to lose after leading by 2 goals at home in the Champions League.
*PSG became the first French club to win an away match after trailing by two goals in the Champions League since Marseille in Dortmund on 6 December 2011.
*Falorin Balogun became the first player to score a brace for Monaco in the Champions League since Kylian Mbappé against Borussia Dortmund on 12 April 2017.
*Desire Doue, with his brace, has scored 6 goals in the knockout stages of the Champions League before the age of 21; only Kylian Mbappé scored more (7), and Erling Haaland also 6.
*Achraf Hakimi has scored in 4 of his last 5 Champions League knockout matches with PSG: something extraordinary for a defender.
*Hakimi became joint top Moroccan scorer in Champions League history (10 goals), tied with Youssef En-Nesyri and Hakim Ziyech.