Picture : Lamine Yamal has now been directly involved in 17 goals in his last eight games for Barcelona. Elected again Man of the Match after a new Masterclass !
2026-27 Champions League Statistics: League Stage, Round 2 (October 13)
Inter 3-4 Club Brugge
*Inter have lost four consecutive matches in the European Cup/Champions League for the first time in their history.
*This is the third victory by a Belgian club on Italian soil in the history of the European Cup/Champions League.
And all three bear the same signature: Club Brugge (also 1-0 against Milan on October 22, 2003 and 3-1 against Atalanta on February 18, 2025.
*Inter had only lost once at home to a Belgian opponent in all competitions before: 0–2 against Anderlecht in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup on April 15, 1970.
*A Belgian team has scored four goals against an Italian opponent for the first time in the European Cup/Champions League.
*Nicolò Tresoldi is the second player to score an away hat-trick vs Inter stadium in the Champions League era.
The only previous instance was achieved by Gareth Bale for Tottenham during the 4–3 match on October 20, 2010.
*Tresoldi is the first Club Brugge player to ever score a hat-trick in the Champions League.
The only player of the club to achieve hat-trick in the European Cup era (until 1992) was Raoul Lambert. He did so in two instances during the same season:
19/09/1973: vs Floriana,
07/11/1973: vs Basel.
*Tresoldi is the youngest German player (22 years and 54 days old) to score a hat-trick in the Champions League.
He surpassed Karim Adeyemi, who was 22 years and 257 days old at the time.
Arsenal 3-0 Lille
*Arsenal have won their last 14 consecutive group stage/league phase games in the Champions League.
*Arsenal have not lost any of their last 17 Champions League matches (13 wins, 4 draws) since a defeat against PSG on May 7, 2025 (1-2).
The “Gunners” have conceded only 7 goals in these 17 matches.
*Arsenal have now beaten 8 different French teams in the Champions League (Auxerre, Lens, Lyon, Marseille, Monaco, Montpellier, PSG, and Lille).
Only Barcelona (9) and Real Madrid (10) against German teams, and Arsenal themselves against Spanish teams (10), have better such records in the competition’s history.
*Olivier Giroud became the first French player aged 40 or older (40 years and 13 days) to play a Champions League match.
He is also the second player (of any nationality) to do so with a French club, following Gianluigi Buffon with PSG in 2018-19.
Lens 0-2 Sporting Lisbon
*Lens suffered their second home defeat in the Champions League, following the loss to Dynamo Kyiv on December 9, 1998 (1–3).
For the first time in their history, Lens failed to score at home in the competition.
Viking 3-3 Bayern
*Viking Stavanger is the first Nordic club to secure a two-goal lead over Bayern in the Champions League era.
In the 15 previous instances (involving IFK Göteborg, Brøndby, Rosenborg, Helsingborg, Copenhagen, and Bodø/Glimt), none managed a lead greater than one goal.
*Viking is the third Nordic club to score three or more goals against Bayern in European competitions, and the first in the Champions League era. The precedents are:
Sweden’s Åtvidabergs (3–1, European Cup, October 3, 1973),
Denmark’s B 1903 Copenhagen (6–2, UEFA Cup, October 22, 1991).
*Harry Kane became the fourth player to score in nine consecutive Champions League matches, following Ruud van Nistelrooy in 2003 (9), Cristiano Ronaldo in 2018 (11), and Robert Lewandowski (twice) in 2020 (9) and 2021 (9).
Sabah 2-0 Slavia Prague
*Joy-Lance Mickels (Sabah) has opened Rwanda’s goalscoring account in the Champions League: it is the 111th nationality to score in the UCL era (excluding own goals).
RB Leipzig 1-0 PSV Eindhoven
*RB Leipzig won their ninth consecutive competitive home match, equalling a club record (previously achieved only in 2020).
Atlético Madrid 2-0 Manchester United
*Atlético Madrid have won a Champions League group stage/league phase match against an English team for the very first time, after 4 draws ad 7 defeats in 11 previous instances.
*Manchester United have kept just one clean sheet in their last 15 away games in the Champions League.
Galatasaray 1-4 Barcelona
*Barcelona has scored 80 goals in 27 Champions League matches since Hansi Flick took charge, averaging 2.96 goals per game.
This is the highest goals-per-game ratio for any club with 20 or more matches under the same manager in the competition (since 1992).
*Barcelona have started a season with 10 wins in a row across all official competitions for the first time in more than century.
Three previous instances: 1909-10, 1915-16, 1923-24.
*Barça have scored 43 goals in their 10 first games of the season. Only once they were as prolific, exactly a century ago: 47 goals in 1926–27.
*Barça have scored 3 or more goals in their last 8 matches: it’s the joint-second such streak in the club’s history, alongside 8 games in 2011-12 and behind only 9 in 1942-43.
*Karim Adeyemi is the 4th player who scored in his first two Champions League matches for Barça, following:
Luis Enrique
Deco
David Villa
*Lamine Yamal has now been directly involved in 17 goals in his last eight games for Barcelona.
Villarreal 3-1 Napoli
*Villarreal have secured their first Champions League victory since April 6, 2022 (1–0 win against Bayern).
With this win, the team ended a 12-game winless streak in the competition (2 draws, 10 losses), the worst in their history and the second-longest for a Spanish club in the competition’s history.
Only Real Sociedad had a longer run: 13 matches, spanning from 2003 to 2023.
The third-longest streak also belongs to Villarreal: 10 matches between 2009 and 2021.
*3 Spanish victories by a margin of 2+ goals on the same day in the UCL had only happened once before, on September 15, 2015:
Real Madrid 4–0 Shakhtar
Galatasaray 0–2 Atlético Madrid
Sevilla 3–0 Borussia Mönchengladbach