What a crazy Champions League night that was! Goal or no goal, penalty whistles and red cards. The XXL conference of the Champions League once again truly delivered.
But some stories got a bit lost in the chaos, and of course, we don’t want to keep them from you.
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Bayern Plays in Goalkeeper Shorts
Is that really Bayern Munich? That’s probably what some people thought when they saw the shirt-and-shorts combo of the German record champions in Eindhoven.
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With the black shirts, they wore red shorts. And for a specific reason: Eindhoven plays in black shorts and red-and-white shirts. So the Munich team had to get creative and quickly repurposed the goalkeeper shorts for the outfield players.
That didn’t stop Jamal Musiala and Lennart Karl from scoring a goal after a dream combination.
Congratulated Too Early
Brugge wanted to be nice to their opponent, but it backfired. Because after the Belgians’ 3-0 win, they congratulated Olympique Marseille on qualifying for the playoffs. The only problem was that the match between Benfica and Real Madrid was still going on.
We know how that ended, thanks to the madness involving goalkeeper Anatoliy Trubin, who scored to make it 4-2 in stoppage time. That result was enough for the Portuguese side to kick Olympique out of the playoffs.
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Arsenal Star Misses 1000% Chance
For the Gunners, the match against Qairat Almaty didn’t matter at all. Still, they celebrated their eighth win in eight games and advanced to the round of 16 as group leaders. The 3-2 win could have been even bigger, but somehow Viktor Gyökeres managed to miss this chance.
By the way, the chance had an xG value of 0.81. Also worth mentioning: the bottom team in the table scored two of their seven goals in London.
Goalkeeper Madness in Lisbon
Benfica fans surely won’t forget the goal to make it 4-2 against Real Madrid anytime soon. But this priest will probably remember it for a while too, even though he didn’t see it. While he was talking about God and storms on Portuguese television, cheers could be heard in the background that really startled the man.
That can really throw you off your game.
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Mbappé Breaks the Next Record
He’s kind of the life insurance for the Royals right now, but even Kylian Mbappé couldn’t prevent the defeat in Lisbon. What went a bit unnoticed was that he broke the next record along the way.
He now has a total of 13 goals in the Champions League group stage, two more than Cristiano Ronaldo, who set the record in the 2015/16 season. True, there are more games since the CL reform, but for example, the Frenchman sat on the bench for 90 minutes against ManCity.
Also, a 17-year-old Icelander made Yamal look old (you can read about it here) and Virgil van Dijk was the first center-back ever to assist three goals in a single Champions League match.
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Crazy, crazier, Champions League.
This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here.
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