2023-10-04 21:10:00
The second round of the Champions League group stage ended on Wednesday evening, and witnessed many exciting matches, most notably Manchester City’s victory over Leipzig with a score (3-1), and Newcastle’s great victory over Paris Saint-Germain with a score (4-1).
The second day of the second round of the Champions League witnessed many records achieved by different players and clubs as well.
Barcelona coach Xavi Hernandez played his 100th match as coach of the Catalan club against Porto.
Lamin Yamal became the youngest player ever to start in the Champions League.
We review for you the most prominent records witnessed on Wednesday in the Champions League:
– Antoine Griezmann has scored more goals in the Champions League (31 goals) than Wayne Rooney, Kaka and Samuel Eto’o (30)
– Antoine Griezmann (47:59) scored the most late goal for a Spanish team in the Champions League since the 2003-04 season, surpassing another goal scored by Lionel Messi against Arsenal in March 2011 (47:46).
At 16 years and 83 days, Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal is the youngest player ever to start in the Champions League, surpassing the record held by Nigerian Celestin Babayaro (16 years and 86 days) since November 1994.
Tonight, Xavi Hernandez became the 11th coach in Barcelona’s history to reach 100 matches with the Catalan team.
– Atletico Madrid achieves its first victory in the Champions League since September 2022, after 6 matches in which it did not know the taste of victory (3 defeats and 3 draws).
Kylian Mbappe is equal to Angel Di Maria and Edinson Cavani as the fourth player who has played the most Champions League matches with Paris Saint-Germain (54 matches), after Marquinhos (83), Marco Verratti (79) and Thiago Silva (60).
– Newcastle United’s last two goals in the Champions League: Alan Shearer vs. Inter Milan at San Siro (2003), Miguel Almiron vs. Paris Saint-Germain at St. James’ Park (2023).
– 7,512 days is the time difference between Newcastle United’s last two goals in the Champions League.
– After falling behind 2-0 at halftime, Paris Saint-Germain had not conceded two goals in the Champions League during the first half since March 6, 2019 (two goals from Manchester United – and lost 3-1 at the end of the match)
Ferran Torres scored 4 goals in his last 9 matches with Barcelona in all competitions, just as he scored in the previous 32 matches with the Catalan club.
– After the goals of Dan Byrne and Longstaff for Newcastle, Newcastle had two different English players score in a single Champions League match for the second time, after December 1997 against Dynamo Kiev (John Barnes and Stuart Pearce)
– At 17 years and 210 days, Warren Zaire Emery became the youngest player to provide an assist in the Champions League for Paris Saint-Germain and the youngest player in the competition since Jude Bellingham in October 2020 (17 years and 121 days for Dortmund vs Zenit).
– Manchester City wins over Leipzig away from home for the first time in the history of the two teams’ confrontations.
Milan did not concede any goals in 4 consecutive matches in the Champions League for the first time in history, and the Italian club had never drawn any of its first two matches in the group stage of the Champions League.
– Newcastle United won their first Champions League match since February 26, 2003, with a 3-1 victory over Leverkusen.
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