What a wonderful UEFA Champions Association matchday that was. Genuine Madrid were stunned at Lille, Atletico at home by Benfica. Juventus took out a staggering late win at Leipzig, while Aston Estate reported their re-visitation of the enormous stage with a success over Bayern Munich. Armory facilitated past Paris Holy person Germain, while Dortmund, Barcelona, Manchester City and Entomb Milan were at their free scoring best.
ESPN's By The Numbers presents to you the best of the mid-week details from the UCL:
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After his support on Wednesday, Robert Lewandowski joins Lionel Messi as the players with the best objective per-game proportion in UCL-time history (somewhere around 50 objectives scored). Simply behind them are Cristiano Ronaldo (0.77) and Ruud van Nistelrooy (0.77). A piece further behind Karim Benzema (0.59) gathers together the main 5.
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This is the principal UCL pre-knockout round match Bayern Munich have lost beginning around 2017 (that was a 3-0 misfortune at PSG, oversaw by... Unai Emery, obviously). They were 37(W)- 4(D)- 0(L) in their past 41 UCL pre-KO Round matches.
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The rundown of mentors who have beaten Enthusiasm Guardiola, Jose Mourinho, and Carlo Ancelotti in European rivalry is an extremely short one: Diego Simeone, Jurgen Klopp, and presently... Bruno Genesio of Lille.
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This is the initial time in UCL history that three Spanish sides have lost their games in a solitary day (Girona, Atletico Madrid, and Genuine Madrid on Wednesday).
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Girona are currently a piece of one more sad record: After only two games, they have as of now equalled the record for most own objectives surrendered in a solitary UCL crusade (3, same as Fenerbahce in 2007-08).
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Jhon Duran's 5 objectives off the seat this season is the most by any player from Europe's main 5 associations (all contests). Meaning of super-sub.
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Mohamed Salah is the third player to score in five sequential UCL home games for a Head Association side; after Thierry Henry with Stockpile (7) and Ruud van Nistelrooy with Manchester Joined together (6).
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A marginally nerdier record, however a decent one in the event that you're searching for a bar test detail - - Jeremy Doku had 26 contacts in the resistance box against Slovan Bratislava, the most incredibly ever by a player on record (beginning around 2008-09) in a UCL game.
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Playing against Shakthar Donetsk, Lazar Samardzic of Atalanta turned into the main player to finish something like eight spills and make no less than six possibilities in a UCL game since Lionel Messi in October 2019 with Barcelona against Entomb.
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Barcelona's 5-0 loss of Little fellows was the club's 10th triumph of 5+ objectives with a spotless sheet in its UCL history. That ties Bayern Munich for the most such triumphs in UCL history (no other group has more than 6).
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In the mean time, Man City's 4-0 win over Bratislava was Enthusiasm Guardiola's 21st triumph by 4+ objectives and a perfect sheet in the UCL. This is such an amazing number in light of the fact that main Carlo Ancelotti (11) and Jose Mourinho (10) have something like 10 such UCL wins.
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This is Lewandowski's fourteenth UCL season with an objective, that is the seventh-most in the UCL-period after Messi (18), Benzema (18), C. Ronaldo (16), Ryan Giggs (16), Thomas Muller (15), and Raul (15).
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Stockpile have kept 17 clean sheets in 32 games in all contests in 2024, the greater part of any Chief Association side. As a matter of fact, across Europe's large five associations this schedule year, just Genuine Madrid have kept more (18).
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Endrick is presently Genuine Madrid's most youthful (18 years, 73 days) starter in the UCL period, a record recently held by the incomparable Raul (who had been 18y, 78 days on UCL debut).
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Genuine Madrid's 36-game unbeaten streak in all rivalries (24-12-0 W-D-L) has now finished. This was the club's longest unbeaten streak in all rivalries since a run of 40 from April 2016 to January 2017 (under Zinedine Zidane).
Likewise, this is whenever Madrid first have been kept from scoring in a UCL pre-knockout round match since a 2-0 misfortune against Shakhtar Donetsk (Dec, 2020)
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Erling Haaland's quest for one more record serious areas of strength for stays. He scored his 42nd profession UCL objective to remove him 1 from tying Kylian Mbappe for the second-most by a player prior to turning 25 (Haaland turns 25 in July one year from now). The record, obviously, is Messi's - who had 51.
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Talking about 51, Lewandowski currently has 51 UCL objectives subsequent to turning 30, the second player to cross the 50-objective imprint in the wake of turning 30 later... Ronaldo (who hit 68).
Lewandowski is additionally only four objectives from joining Ronaldo and Messi in the 100-UCL-objective club (he has 96, Messi 129, Ronaldo 140).
