Gareth Bale Riyad Mahrez = 20 #UCL goals
Riyad Mahrez becomes the 5th African player to score 20 UCL goals along with Didier Drogba (44), Mohamed Salah (44), Samuel Eto’o (30), and Sadio Mané (27)
Joško Gvardiol has scored two Champions League goals for RB Leipzig:
◉ vs. Real Madrid
◉ vs. Man City
Saving them for the big sides.
No English club won their first leg in the Champions League Round of 16
Dortmund 1-0 Chelsea
AC Milan 1-0 Tottenham
Liverpool 2-5 Real Madrid
RB Leipzig 1-1 Man City
0 - Manchester City didn’t make a substitute in tonight’s 1-1 draw with RB Leipzig, becoming the first team to make no subs in a Champions League game since Manchester United in October 2018 against Juventus. Persistence.
3 - The last manager to progress from a Champions League knockout tie despite having the lost the first leg by a margin of 3+ goals was Jürgen #Klopp with Liverpool against Barcelona in the 2018-19 semi-final (0-3 A, 4-0 H), eventually lifting the trophy that season. Faith.
UEFA have announced they will issue refunds to all Liverpool fans who had tickets for last year’s Champions League final after the events at Stade de France.
Chelsea will host Borussia Dortmund in a match for the very first time on Tuesday. But after winning six of their first seven UEFA Champions League home games against German sides (D1), the Blues are now winless in their last two (D1 L1).
Borussia Dortmund have lost their last five UEFA Champions League away games against English sides since a 2-1 win at Arsenal in October 2013.
Borussia Dortmund have progressed from five of their six previous UEFA Champions League knockout stage ties when winning the first leg, the exception being against PSG in the 2019/20 Round of 16.
Chelsea have won seven of their last nine UEFA Champions League home games, with the exceptions being a 3-1 defeat to Real Madrid in last season’s quarter-final and a 1-1 draw with Red Bull Salzburg in this season’s group stage.
Jude Bellingham is Borussia Dortmund’s highest scorer in the UEFA Champions League this season with four goals, including one away against Manchester City in the group stages. He could become the first Englishman in the competition’s history to score away from home against two different English sides.
𝐓𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲:
Chelsea vs. Dortmund
(Dortmund lead 1-0)
Benfica vs. Club Brugge
(Benfica lead 2-0)
𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲:
Bayern vs. PSG
(Bayern lead 1-0)
Spurs vs. Milan
(Milan lead 1-0)
Dortmund have lost their last five UCL matches in England vs Premier League clubs, last winning there against Arsenal in October 2013.
Can they flip the script today vs the Blues?
Each of Raheem Sterling’s last three goals at Stamford Bridge has come in the UEFA Champions League:
v Salzburg
v Dinamo Zagreb
v Borussia Dortmund
He has now become the first player to score three #UCL goals in a Chelsea shirt this season.
44 - Since his debut in the competition in September 2014, Raheem Sterling (44) has been involved in more Champions League goals than any other Englishman (27 goals, 17 assists), while only Wayne Rooney (30) has ever netted more in the competition amongst his compatriots. Lion.