2023-11-08 22:20:00
Written by: Ibrahim Ali
Thursday 9 November 2023 12:20 AM
The fourth round of the group stage of the Champions League ended on Wednesday evening, and witnessed many exciting matches, as Manchester United was defeated by Copenhagen, Denmark, with a score of (4-3), while Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Inter Milan, and Real Sociedad were able to officially qualify for the round. 16th in the European competition.
The second day of the fourth round of the Champions League witnessed many records achieved by different players and clubs as well.
Manchester United’s Rasmus Hoylund became the first player ever to score five goals in his first four Champions League matches with Manchester United.
Rodrygo and Vinicius Junior each scored 17 goals for Real Madrid in the Champions League, surpassing Roberto Carlos as the best Brazilian scorers for the Spanish team in the history of the tournament.
We review for you the most prominent records witnessed on Tuesday in the Champions League:
Real Sociedad scores 3+ goals in a Champions League match for the first time in its history.
Matteo Politano has been involved in nine goals in 15 games in Napoli’s 2023/24 season in all competitions (six goals and three assists), one more than in the whole of last season (eight in 37 games).
David Datro Fofana scored his first ever Champions League goal and Union Berlin’s first away goal in the Champions League.
Real Sociedad have won three consecutive Champions League matches for the first time in 41 years.
Alessandro Bastoni will start the match as Inter captain for the first time in his career in all competitions.
Rasmus Hojlund is the first Danish player to score a goal once morest a Danish team in the Champions League.
No player has scored more goals for Manchester United in all competitions this season than Rasmus Hoylund (4).
Rasmus Hojlund has five goals in his first four Champions League matches for Manchester United, the most goals by a player in his first four appearances for the Red Devils in the competition.
Andrey Lunin has saved 7 of the 14 penalties he has faced at club level in all competitions since the 2018/19 season (excluding penalty shoot-outs), including two of his four penalty kicks as Real Madrid’s goalkeeper.
Rasmus Hojlund is the first player ever to score five goals in his first four Champions League matches for Manchester United.
At 20 years and 277 days, Rasmus Hojlund is the youngest player to score twice in a Champions League away match for the Red Devils.
Brahim Diaz scored two goals in the last two matches he started for Real Madrid in all competitions following scoring only one goal in the first six matches.
Marcus Rashford received only his second red card in 374 appearances for Manchester United in all competitions, and his first since September 2018 once morest Burnley.
Manchester United is the first team to score two goals and have a player sent off and a penalty kick awarded in the first half of a Champions League match since Bayern Munich once morest Manchester City in November 2014.
Real Madrid’s goalkeepers have saved three of the last four Champions League penalties (two by Thibaut Courtois and one by Andrey Lunin) following failing to save any of the previous 19 penalties (excluding penalty kicks).
Rodrigo Goes scored 17 goals in 43 matches with Real Madrid in the Champions League, the same amount he achieved in 120 La Liga matches.
Rodrygo and Vinicius Junior have each scored 17 goals for Real Madrid in the Champions League, surpassing Roberto Carlos as the top Brazilian scorers for the Spanish team in the tournament’s history.
Manchester United is the first team since 2003-04 to concede a penalty kick in each of its first four matches of a Champions League season.
Bukayo Saka is the first Arsenal player to score and assist in consecutive home matches in the Champions League since Cesc Fabregas once morest Sevilla and Slavia Prague in the 2007–08 season.
Vinicius Junior and Rodrigo both scored and assisted in the same match for Real Madrid for the first time in all competitions.
3 players from England have scored 25+ goals in the Champions League: Wayne Rooney (30), Raheem Sterling (27) and Harry Kane (25).
Harry Kane scored four goals in his first four Champions League matches for Bayern Munich; Most appearances by a player in his first four appearances in the competition for the club, alongside Roy Mackay (4).
Inter qualified for the group stage two rounds ago for the second time in the Champions League in its current form, following the 2004/05 season.
Bayern Munich has reached the round of 16 in the Champions League for the 20th time, only Real Madrid have done so more times (21 times).
Ronnie Bardji is the youngest player to score once morest Manchester United in the Champions League (17 years and 358 days).
1699482795
#Vinicius #Rodrigos #achievement #Hoylunds #brilliance.. #records #Wednesday #Champions #League
