📊 The 5️⃣ most interesting Champions League stats of matchday 8
The Champions League's first ever league phase is over and it produced a wild last matchday.
We had 18 games all taking place at once with some shock wins, fantastic individual performances and mistakes some would rather forget.
Here though, are our favourite statistics from this final round of games.
64 - There were 64 goals scored in the UEFA Champions League tonight, with only one day of European Cup action ever seeing more goals scored (66 on 16 September 1970). Nintendo. pic.twitter.com/7UvUC9F5TB
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) January 29, 2025
We've never seen this many goals in a single Champions League matchday before and you have to go back over 50 years to find another set of games that come even close.
Feyenoord became the first ever team on Wednesday evening to score three own goals in a single Champions League game 🤯Gernot Trauner also became the first player to score two own goals in such a match 😳 pic.twitter.com/WsE7EYzDWo
— Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) January 30, 2025
Feyenoord may have qualified for the play-off round but Wednesday was a night to forget for Gernot Trauner, who made some unwanted Champions League history.
Morgan Rogers is now the second-youngest English player to score a Champions League hat-trick, behind only Wayne Rooney 🤩🏴 pic.twitter.com/6EOcCnrzPU
— Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) January 29, 2025
If Gernot Trauner had a night to forget, then Morgan Rogers was on the opposite end of the enjoyment scale last night. The Aston Villa man became England's second-youngest scorer of a Champions League hat-trick.
35 - Manchester City are unbeaten in their last 35 UEFA Champions League home games (W30 D5), with only Bayern Munich (43 – 1969-1991) and Barcelona (38 - 2013-2020) recording longer streaks without a home defeat in the European Cup. Resilience. pic.twitter.com/kbzPZ7y35o
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) January 29, 2025
Manchester City may have just squeaked through to the new Champions League play-off round but they've kept their astonishing home record in this competition intact.
Arsenal conceded just 1️⃣ goal from open play in the UCL League Phase 👏 pic.twitter.com/aH2J60Zeqv
— Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) January 29, 2025
Arsenal end this season's league phase with one of the most impressive defensive records in the competition.
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