IFFHS CONTINENTAL NEWS - EUROPE




Picture : Paulo Dybala scored his 17th Champions League goal with his left food !


IFFHS statistics on Champions’ League group stage round 4 (November 2)

*From 7 points Manchester United have at the moment in the group, 5 were gained due to late Cristiano Ronaldo goals in 3 games vs Villarreal (2-1) and vs Atalanta (3-2 at home, 2-2 away).

*Cristiano Ronaldo has scored in every game of the first 4 rounds of the group stage, as he also did in the 2013-14 and 2017-18 seasons. He is the first player to do so in three different editions of Champions League.

*Juventus won their first 4 group stage matches as they did in the 1995-96 and 2004-05 seasons and became the first team to qualify for the round of 16.

*Paulo Dybala is the third player to miss a penalty, repeat it on a VAR decision and score on the second attempt in a Champions League match (vs Zenit 4-2). This previously happened with Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) and with Erling Haaland (Borussia Dortmund).

*Dybala has scored all his 17 goals in the Champions League with his left foot.

*Serge Gnabry (Bayern) has scored (vs Benfica 5-2) the third back-heel goal of the Champions League 2021-22. The first two were done by Moumi Ngamaleu (Young Boys) and Robin Gosens (Atalanta).

*Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer who gave an assist to Robert Lewandowski for one of his goals in that game became the first goalkeeper since February 2019 to make an assist in a Champions League match. The last was Manchester City's Ederson against Schalke 04.

*Salzburg team had in the game vs Wolfsburg (1-2) an average age of 22 years 102 days (including substitutions). It was the 2nd youngest team in a Champions League match in the history. The record belongs to Arsenal (21 years 127 days) against Olympiacos on 9 December 2009.

*Hakim Ziyech has scored (vs Malmo 1-0) Chelsea's 500th goal in European competitions.