Are you the type who appreciates goals, goals and more goals
even if the quality of football is not up to scratch? Or do you love an eclectic
mix of both? If you are either of both then you sure must have slept feeling
entertained enough at the end of Tuesday’s UEFA Champions League matchday.
A record 40 goals were scored in only 8 games across Europe
with the standout figures being Luis Adriano’s 5-goal haul for Shakhtar Donetsk
which led them to a 7-0 obliteration of BATE Barisov and Bayern Munich’s 7-1
bullying of Roma at Stadio Olympico. The 40 goals were the second highest on a
Champions League matchday falling only four short of the 44 goals scored on
October 1 1997 but even then, 10 games were played on the night.
The Bavarians and the Ukrainian outfit became only the third
and fourth sides to score seven goals away joining Ligue 1 duo Olympique Lyon
and Olympique Marseille. Mircea Lucescu’s Shakhtar also became the first team
in Champions League history to score six goals in the first half of a match
with Adriano matching Lionel Messi’s record of 5 goals in a match, the Argentine
having accumulated the same against Bayer Leverkusen on March 7 2012. However,
Adriano became the first player to score five away from home in the history of
the competition.
And as if that’s not enough, 21 goals were scored by the
half time whistle, a competition record for first half goals. CSKA Moscow,
Bayern, Sporting, Schalke, Chelsea and Shakhtar (both twice) all scored from
the penalty spot, the eight goals from the spot also a new Champions League
record breaking the six penalties scored on September 13 2000 and September 29
2010.
There were also club records. Bayern Munich’s 7-1 win against
Roma was their biggest away win in European competition while they also became
the first away team to put 7 goals past an Italian team in Italian ground in
European competition. Chelsea’s 6-0 thrashing of Maribor is their largest win
margin in their Champions League history while Shakhtar’s 7-0 win over BATE was
not only their largest but ended the hosts’ 14 month unbeaten run at home.
And That's thesteifmastertake!!
And That's thesteifmastertake!!
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