Picture : Yan Diomande has become the youngest Real Madrid substitute (19 years and 341 days) to both score and provide an assist in a Champions League match.
2026-27 Champions League Statistics: League Stage, Round 3 (October 21)
Bayern 2-2 Arsenal
*Bayern’s Harry Kane became only the second player to score in 10 consecutive Champions League matches following Cristiano Ronaldo who managed this in 11 consecutive games between 2017 and 2018.
*Arsenal is the opponent Kane scored the joint-most goals against (16) during his career, along with Everton and behind only Leicester (20).
Kane is the top scorer against Arsenal in official competitions in XXI century, ahead of Wayne Rooney (15).
*Bayern’s Manuel Neuer made his 163rd Champions League appearance, drawing level with Lionel Messi and Thomas Müller for the third-highest number of appearances in the competition; only Cristiano Ronaldo (183) and Iker Casillas (177) are ahead.
Real Madrid 4-1 RB Leipzig
*Real Madrid have surpassed their own record, becoming the first club to score in 45 consecutive home matches in the history of European competitions.
They scored in 44 consecutive such matches between 2011 and 2018 until failing to score on December 12, 2018, against CSKA Moscow (0–3).
Since then, they have gone the new run of 45 matches.
So, Real Madrid hold the two longest such streaks in history, having scored in 89 of their last 90 home matches in continental tournaments.
*Kylian Mbappé has become the first player in the history of the European Cup/Champions League to score 25+ goals with two different clubs:
42 for Paris Saint-Germain and now 25 for Real Madrid.
*Mbappé has both scored and provided an assist in the same Champions League match for the first time in his Real Madrid career (28 appearances).
The last time he achieved this was with PSG against Juventus in November 2022.
*Yan Diomande has become the youngest Real Madrid substitute (19 years and 341 days) to both score and provide an assist in a Champions League match.
The previous club’s record was held by Guti, set against Molde in September 1999 (22 years and 325 days).
Diomande is the fourth-youngest player to achieve this for any team in the history of the competition.
*Bernardo Silva is the oldest foreign player (32 years and 72 days), to score his first goal for Real Madrid in the Champions League.
He has surpassed the previous club’s record, held by Ruud van Nistelrooij with his goal against Dynamo Kyiv in September 2006 (30 years and 87 days).
Como 4-1 Manchester United
*For the first time in history, at least three Italian teams (Roma, Napoli, and Como) have scored 4+ goals in the same round of the European Cup/Champions League.
*Manchester United are winless in seven consecutive games in all competitions for the first time since a run of eight matches between November and December 2015.
*Manchester United have conceded 4+ goals and lost in the Champions League for the fourth time in their history, following:
0-4 vs Barcelona (1994)
3-4 vs Bayern (2023)
3-4 vs Copenhagen (2023)
*Manchester United are the first English team in history to concede in the first two minutes of consecutive major European matches (1st minute vs Atlético Madrid, 2nd minute vs Como).
*Como are only the second Italian team to beat Manchester United by a margin of at least three goals in the history of the European Cup/Champions League, following Milan (who did so twice: 4–0 on May 14, 1958, and 3–0 on May 2, 2007).
*Como’s Nico Paz is the youngest Argentinian player (22 years, 43 days) to be involved in three goals (2 goals, 1 assist) in a Champions League game since 21-year-old Lionel Messi in April 2009 against Bayern Munich.
Lille 2-4 Galatasaray
*It was Galatasaray’s only second Champions League match in which they have scored four goals away from home—the first being in October 1999 (a 4-1 win against Hertha).
Inter 1-0 Shakhtar
*Carlos Augusto is the third Inter defender to score in two consecutive appearances in the European Cup/Champions League, following Giacinto Facchetti in 1967 and Denzel Dumfries in 2025.
Aston Villa 3-1 Viking
*Aston Villa are unbeaten in their last 15 home games in European competitions (14 wins, 1 draw) and won all last 12 of them.
Betis 1-0 Feyenoord
*Betis have gone nearly 21 years without playing in the UCL, and they have made a spectacular return by winning their first 3 matches of the season.
There are 4 instances of the teams that returned to European Cup/Champions League after a longer absence oand won their first three matches:
1980: Budapest Honvéd (24 seasons without participating)
1999: Valencia (28)
2007: FK Sarajevo (22)
2024: Aston Villa (42)
And only Aston Villa and Betis achieved this during the group stage or league phase. The other three did so in the qualifying rounds.
Sporting Lisbon 2-3 LASK
*LASK have won a Champions League game for the first time in their history (4 defeats in 4 games before).
Club Brugge 3-0 Lens
*Lens have already conceded 10 goals in the 2026-27 Champions League—the highest total for a French club after three matches of a UCL campaign.
*Club Brugge have won only 3 of their last 8 home matches in the Champions League. In each of those instances, the opponent was a French team, and the margin of victory was 3 goals, including:
4–1 vs Monaco on September 18, 2025
3–0 vs Marseille on January 28, 2026