Half the teams in the last 16 are in the Premier League or the Bundesliga
Fede Valverde has 6 goal contributions in his last 5 games across all competitions (4 goals, 2 assists)
#UCL
FT: Real Madrid 5-1 Celtic
FT: Shakhtar 0-4 RB Leipzig
Real top Group F ahead of the Bundesliga side with both winning big on MD6.
2 - Celtic (2) and Rangers (0) only earned a combined two points in their UEFA Champions League groups this season. This is the lowest ever combined tally by sides from a single nation with more than one entrant in a season in the competition. Humbled.
Christopher Nkunku has scored more Champions League goals for RB Leipzig than any other player in the club’s history.
Maybe that’s what the balloon was for.
24 - The oldest player in Red Bull Salzburg’s starting XI to face AC Milan is 24-year-old Maximilian Wöber; he is the youngest player in Champions League history to be his team’s oldest starter in a match. Shoulders.
7 - Bruno Petkovic’s goal after seven minutes is the third-earliest that Chelsea have conceded at Stamford Bridge in the Champions League, only conceding earlier versus Ajax in 2019-20 (2nd min) and APOEL Nicosia in 2009-10 (6th min). Breached.
Kylian Mbappé in the last three weeks:
v Benfica
v Marseille
v Ajaccio
v Maccabi Haifa
v Troyes
v Juventus
PSG’s in-form man gives them the lead in Turin!
Kylian Mbappé is the youngest player in Champions League history to score 40 goals in the competition.
Sitting down the Juventus defence.
Denis Zakaria scored his first goal for Chelsea with his first shot on his first appearance for the club.
Worth the wait.
Aged 17 years and 346 days, Rico Lewis has become the youngest player in ChampionsLeague history to score on his first start in the competition, breaking the record previously held by Karim Benzema (17 years 352 days for Lyon vs Rosenborg in 2005).
Kylian Mbappé is now the youngest player to score 40 goals in Champions League history (23 years, 317 days)