Total football.
On Wednesday night, PSG and Bayern Munich treated us to an absolutely magnificent spectacle in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final.
A nine-goal thriller (5-4) that took things to heights rarely reached in football history.
Here’s a quick roundup of all the standout stats from the evening.
- For the first time in history, five goals were scored in the first half of a Champions League semi-final.
- You have to go back to May 8, 1960, to find nine goals scored in a Champions League semi-final. (Frankfurt - Glasgow: 6-3)
- PSG are the only team in history to have scored five goals in four different matches in a single Champions League season.
- With 15 goal involvements, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia is now the most decisive player in PSG history in a single Champions League campaign. (10 goals, five assists)
- Ousmane Dembélé has become the PSG player involved in the most goals in the Champions League knockout stage (11 goals, seven assists). He therefore moves ahead of Kylian Mbappé.
- Désiré Doué is now involved in 13 goals in the Champions League knockout stages (seven goals, six assists), more than any other player under 21 in the competition’s history.
- For the first time in history, three French players scored in the same Champions League semi-final.
- For the first time, Bayern Munich lost a match in which Michael Olise scored.
- The Harry Kane - Michael Olise - Luis Diaz trio have now scored 100 goals in official competitions this season.
Sources: Opta, StatsduFoot, Squawka.
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