DBasia.news – Interesting things were created after several groups and teams played the first match of the 2019-20 Champions League group which took place on Wednesday (18/9) early morning Western Indonesian Time.
British club duo, Chelsea and Liverpool, defeated. Meanwhile, Barcelona, which is superior, must be content to play goalless at Borussia Dortmund headquarters.
Several interesting facts were created in eight Champions League matches that had already taken place. Check out BolaSkor.com’s summary taken from Opta :
- Ansu Fati became the youngest player to play for Barcelona in the Champions League at the age of 16 years 321 days. Fati broke the previous record held by Bojan (17 years 22 days).
- Liverpool became the first defending champion to swallow defeat in the Champions League from 1994-1995. The last defending champions club to surrender the following season at that time was AC Milan.
- Chelsea gave their Champions League debuts to three young British players under the age of 21, Tammy Abraham, Mason Mount, and Fikayo Tomori. The Blues became the first English club since Liverpool in 2008.
- Erling Haaland has made several records in his Champions League debut match. First, Haaland became the third player to score in his first two minutes at the event after Andreas Moller and Eliaquim Mangala.
- Erling Haaland also became the first teenager to score more than one goal on his debut in the Champions League since Wayne Rooney in 2004. Haaland also became the third-youngest player to record a hat trick at the event after Raul Gonzalez and Wayne Rooney.
- Frank Lampard became the first Chelsea manager to be defeated in his debut match in the Champions League. Previously, the worst result was inscribed by Gianluca Vialli who drew against AC Milan.
- Since his 2-0 win over Udinese when handling Borussia Dortmund, Jurgen Klopp has always lost when he travels to Italy. Klopp was defeated five times in the Land of Pizza.