Miner also noted
On Wednesday, October 5, matches in quartets E – H ended the third round of the Champions League group stage. Wednesday’s matches didn’t surprise with sensational results, but still gave a few moments, which are worth dwelling on in more detail.
First in history, 11 Ukrainians entered the starting lineup of Shakhtar for the Champions League match.
The first a goal in the group stage of the Champions League was scored by Shakhtar midfielder Oleksandr Zubkov. It happened in the ninth match for the midfielder in the most prestigious club tournament in Europe. Before the match with Real Madrid, Zubkov had a goal for Ferencvaros in 15 matches of the Champions League qualification.
First in seven and a half years, Milan have lost a Champions League match by three goals or more. On Wednesday, the Rossoneri lost to Chelsea – 1:4. Prior to this match, Milan’s major defeat in the Champions League dates back to March 2014, when the Italian club lost to Atlético (1:4).
Third Borussia Dortmund midfielder Jude Bellingham became the youngest captain to take the team onto the field in a Champions League match. On the day of the game against Sevilla, the English midfielder was 19 years and 98 days old. The “age” record belongs to Ruben Neves, who led Porto with the captain’s armband at the age of 18 years and 221 days. In second place is Matthijs De Ligt, who captained Ajax in the Champions League match for 19 years and 51 days.
fourth Sevilla head coach Julen Lopetegui was sacked after the Champions League matches. Previously, Domenico Tedesco (Leipzig), Thomas Tuchel (Chelsea), and Gerardo Seoane (Bayer) lost their posts after the fights in the most prestigious club tournament in Europe. Lopetegi bosses of Sevilla did not forgive the home defeat from Borussia Dortmund (1:4).
Fifth match in its history, Shakhtar lost to Real Madrid. The Pitmen won two matches against Slivochny.
Fifth match in a row in all tournaments was won by Manchester City. In these matches, Guardiola’s team scored 20 goals, conceding only four.
11th goal Real Madrid striker Rodrigo scored in the Champions League matches. For this, the attacker took 30 matches. Interestingly, in other tournaments, the striker also scored 11 goals for the Creamy, but it took 80 matches.
19 goals in 12 matches for Manchester City were scored by the Norwegian striker Erling Haaland. By the way, the striker became only the third player who managed to score in each of the first three games in the Champions League for the English club.
38 assists after an assisting hat-trick in the match with Maccabi became in the Champions League at Juventus forward Angel Di Maria. According to this indicator, the Argentine is second only to Cristiano Ronaldo, who has 42 assists.
Source: Sportarena
