Thursday, 24 October 2019

Many Goals and Record-Breaking, These are Interesting Facts about the Champions League

By db-admin

DBasia.news –  A number of interesting facts emerged in the 2019-2020 Champions League group phase match which took place, Tuesday (10/22).

The 2019-2020 Champions League top teams won the match. Starting from the crushing wins, and big wins.

PSG, Manchester City and Tottenham are the teams that have scored a lot of goals. All three clubs have five goals in their opponents.

Manchester City extended Pep Guardiola’s neat achievements against Italian club. Throughout his career, Guardiola only swallowed one defeat from the Italian team.

Meanwhile, Atletico Madrid have recorded a record of never conceding in the last five home matches against a German team. The last time was Borussia Dortmund in 1996.

Alvaro Morata became the first player to ever score goals for Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid in the Champions League. In fact, Morata is not the first player to play for both clubs.

Manuel Neuer appeared in 103 Champions League matches. These records has made Neuer match Oliver Kahn’s record as the German player who appeared most often at the event.

Toni Kroos scored in his 100th match in the Champions League. Kroos matched the reflections of Thierry Henry, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Andrea Pirlo and Cristiano Ronaldo.

Kylian Mbappe became the youngest player to score 15 goals in the Champions League. Mbappe did it at the age of 20 years 306 days, beating Lionel Messi’s previous record.

Kylian Mbappe also became the first substitute to score three goals in the Champions League since 2008. At that time, Joseba Llorente did it for Villarreal against Aalborg.

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