10 facts after the end of the first round of the Champions League
Over the past two days, there have been exciting football battles in the Champions League, where defending champions Liverpool at the hands of Napoli, while Real Madrid suffered a humiliating defeat against Paris St Germain 3-0.
Manchester City put their last domestic defeat behind Norwich City behind, with a notable 3-0 win at Shakhtar Donstick and a goalless draw against Barcelona and Borussia Dortmund.
The first round matches witnessed many facts.
- The Champions League season 2019/20 is the first season in which two different hat-trick players have scored "three goals" in their first appearance in the tournament (Dynamo Zagreb's Meslav Orcic and Red Bull Salzburg's Arling Hollan).
- Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski is the only player to have scored in the opening round of the last four seasons of the Champions League.
Atletico Madrid received two or more goals in three consecutive games in all competitions for the second time under Diego Simeone, the first being in February 2014.
- Atalanta is the third Italian team to lose in their first ever game in the Champions League, after Inter in 1998/99 (2/0 against Real Madrid) and Rome in 2001/02 (2/1 against Real Madrid).
Juan Cuadrado is the first player to score a goal in the Champions League against Atletico Madrid since Arnott Dengoma Gronefeld with Club Brugge in October 2018.
Angel Di Maria is the third player in the history of the Champions League to score two or more goals in a match against both Real Madrid and Barcelona, after Mario Gardel and Andriy Shevchenko, the second Argentine scored against the Spanish poles in the binaural cup after Sergio Aguero
- Shakhtar Donetsk have received 12 goals in their four previous Champions League games with Manchester City; only against Barcelona have scored more against one opponent in the tournament (13 goals in 6 games).
* Frank Lampard is Chelsea's first coach to lose in his first Champions League match. 10 of the previous 11 won, while Gianluca Viali drew with Milan in 1999.
- Luis Suarez did not score and did not make any goal in the last 1778 minutes played outside the Camp Nou in the Champions League, ie 29 hours and 38 minutes. The last time he scored was away in September 2015 against Roma at the Olympico.
Erling Halland (19 years and 58 days) is the youngest player to score more than one goal in his first Champions League match since Wayne Rooney scored a hat-trick against Manchester United against Fenerbahce in September 2004 (18 years and 340 days).
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