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2026-27 Champions League Statistics: League Stage, Round 2 (October 14)
*The 2026/27 Champions League started by highest average in tournament history: 4.08 goals per game after two first math-days (147 goals scored in 36 matches).
*78 goals scored in 18 matches of the match-day 2 is also all-time record for a single match-day.
*For the first time in history, four Italian teams lost during the same round of the Champions League.
*For the first time in history of the Champions League, 5 victories by Spanish clubs have been recorded on a single match-day.
LASK 3-6 Liverpool
*This is the first ever 3-6 scoreline (away team victory) in Champions League history since 1992 (there had been two 6-3 results).
*In the European Cup era, this scoreline last happened on October 19, 1983 (Győri ETO 3-6 Dinamo Minsk).
*Liverpool scored 6+ goals in an away match in European competition for the third time, following:
7-0 vs Maribor in 2017/18,
7-1 vs Glasgow Rangers in 2022/23.
*Bradley Barcola (Liverpool) scored the first hat-trick of his career (in 206 matches across all competitions).
*It’s the eighth hat-trick by a Liverpool player in the Champions League (since 1992), the outright most of any English club, ahead of Manchester United (7 hat-tricks), Manchester City (7), Arsenal (6).
*Bradley Barcola’s second goal was the 1000th goal scored by French players in the Champions League era (excluding own goals).
France became the second country to reach the four-figure mark, after Brazil (1149 goals).
The next are: Spain 903, Germany 721, Argentina 681, England 626.
*This is the first match in Champions League history featuring a hat-trick by one player (Barcola) and a hat-trick of assists by an opponent (Dibango).
*Cameroon’s Yvan Dibango (LASK) is the first ever player to provide 3 assists in a Champions League match that his team lost.
*Dibango is the first African player to record 3 assists in a Champions League match since his compatriot Samuel Eto’o achieved the feat with Barcelona 20 years ago (on September 12, 2006, against Levski at the Camp Nou).
*Lewis Koumas is the second player aged 21 or younger to both score and assist a goal in a Champions League match for Liverpool, after Steven Gerrard against Dynamo Kyiv in October 2001 (also 21).
*Liverpool’s starting XI had an average age of 24 years and 186 days: their third-youngest ever for a Champions League game, older only than: v vs Borussia Dortmund (24 year 136 days) in September 2001,
vs Midtjylland (24 years 26 days) in December 2020.
Bodø/Glimt 1-0 Borussia Dortmund
*Bodø/Glimt got 6 wins out of 6 European home matches in 2026, including:
3-1 vs Manchester City
3-1 vs Inter
3-0 vs Sporting Lisbon
3-2 vs Union Saint-Gilloise
3-0 vs Nijmegen
1-0 vs Borussia Dortmund
Roma 3-4 Real Madrid
*Real Madrid have won 19 of their last 21 Champions League matches against Italian teams (2 losses).
They only failed to win against Juventus in April 2018 and Milan in November 2024 during this period (both 1-3 defeats).
*Real Madrid won a Champions League match against Roma after trailing by 2 goals (1-3) for the 2nd time, along with 4-2 victory at the Bernabéu (28 September 2004, after trailing 0-2).
*Real Madrid is the first team to win 4 matches in the Champions League era after trailing by 2 goals, including:
5-2 vs Liverpool (21.02.2023, after trailing 0-2)
5-2 vs Borussia Dortmund (22.10.2024, after trailing 0-2)
Manchester United and Arsenal round out the top three, with three such wins each.
There was one more Real Madrid comeback from a two-goal deficit also in European Cup era (1955-1992):
4-3 vs Reims in 1956 (the tournament’s first final).
*Real Madrid turned a two-goal deficit into a one-goal lead in just 7 minutes and 43 seconds: the fastest comeback by an away team in Champions League history.
The previous record was held by Liverpool, who took 12 minutes and 48 seconds to achieve a similar turnaround against Villarreal (May 3, 2022).
*Since the weekend when Donyell Malen made his Roma debut (16-18 January this year), only Harry Kane (38) and Raphinha (24) have scored more goals for clubs from Europe’s big five leagues than him (23 across all competitions, including a brace vs Real Madrid).
Feyenoord 3-2 Como
*This is the first Champions League match between two non-Spanish teams with seven players from Spain starting.
*Feyenoord have scored 31 goals in their first 10 matches of a season across all competitions for the first time since 1995-96 (also 31).
Aston Villa 6-0 Fenerbahçe
*Aston Villa have recorded their biggest ever win in major European competitions, and their biggest victory under coach Unai Emery across all competitions.
*Aston Villa have scored six goals in a single match in European competition for the first time.
*Aston Villa and PSG are the first teams in Champions League history to score three first half goals in both of their opening two matches of a campaign.
*Fenerbahçe suffered their heaviest defeat in European competitions since November 1992 (1-7 vs Sigma Olomouc).
Manchester City 2-4 PSG
*Manchester City have never trailed by three goals at home at halftime in a Champions League match.
Only once before in the Champions League era had Manchester City found themselves trailing by 3 goals at their own stadium: on October 2, 2013, against Bayern. That day, the 0–3 scoreline arrived in the 59th minute. PSG managed it by the 32nd.
Across all competitions, Manchester City last trailed by three goals at half-time of a home game in January 2012 in the FA Cup against Manchester United.
*Manchester City have never conceded four goals at home in a Champions League match before. Their previous lowest point was three, on eight separate occasions.
*This is the first time PSG have managed to score three goals within the first 32 minutes of an away Champions League match.
*PSG are now unbeaten in 10 last Champions League matches against English opponents (8 wins, 2 draws).
They are the first club since Real Madrid to achieve such a long streak against English clubs in the competition (11 matches unbeaten between 2011 and 2017).
In all UEFA competitions, the current PSG’s unbeaten run against English opposition is even longer (12 matches).
*PSG started this UCL campaign by 10 goals scored in 2 first games: joint-most figure in the competition’s history, along with:
Real Madrid in 2013/14
Bayern Munich in 2019/20
Borussia Dortmund in 2024/25.
*Erling Haaland, with a brace, became Manchester City’s all-time leading goal-scorer in the Champions League (38 goals), surpassing Sergio Agüero (36).
*Haaland has reached 60 goals in the Champions League in his 60th match in the competition.
He is the seventh player to reach that milestone and, by far, the fastest of them all: Messi needed 80 matches, Lewandowski 85, Mbappé 89, Cristiano Ronaldo 98, Benzema 111, and Raúl 115.
*Ousmane Dembélé (PSG) has now scored in each of his last six Champions League appearances.
He became the second French player to score in 6 consecutive UCL matches, following Kylian Mbappé in 2022.
Betis 3-2 Porto
*Isco (Betis) became the first Spanish player to score for four different Spanish teams in the Champions League.
*There was an age gap of more than 35 years between coaches Manuel Pellegrini (Betis, 73 years and 28 days) and Francesco Farioli (Porto, 37 years and 195 days).
The Champions League record is a 41-year age gap between coaches that have faced each other: Mircea Lucescu and Julian Nagelsmann in 2021.
Slovan Bratislava 0-3 Stuttgart
*Stuttgart’s Ermedin Demirovic scored his fourth goal of this Champions League season, tying Nicolò Tresoldi and Erling Haaland as current joint-top scorers.
Demirovic has already set a new club’s scoring record for a player in a single Champions League campaign.