Como, a record-breaking night! All the records from 9-1 at Lens

Como’s 9-1 win away at Lens is a result that goes down in the Champions League record books: a historic night that archivists and statistics accounts will revisit whenever future goalfests unfold.

Let’s look at all the records set during these 90 minutes.

In this article, “Champions League” refers to Europe’s premier club competition from 1992 onwards.

🎆 9 goals away from home? The last time was in 1971

Como become the only team in the Champions League (since the competition was renamed in 1992) to win by an eight-goal margin after scoring nine goals. Liverpool and Real Madrid also managed eight-goal wins against Besiktas and Malmo respectively.

• Lens-Como: 1-9
• Liverpool-Besiktas: 8-0
• Real Madrid-Malmo: 8-0

The last team to score nine goals away from home in the European Cupwas Feyenoord at Olympiakos Nicosia in 1971: the match ended 0-9.

🇮🇹 Italian record: first club to score 7 away goals in the CL

Como are the first Italian team in European Cup / UEFA Champions League history to score at least seven goals in an away match.

🤯 A club’s CL debut: only Del Piero has done better

Douvikas is the second player to score in each of a team’s first four matches in UEFA Champions League history after Alessandro Del Piero (who scored in Juventus’s first five matches in the 1995/96 edition).

This Opta statistic only counts editions from 1992 onwards. Juventus had previously played in the European Cup, but their first Champions League qualification came in 1995/96.

👎 Lens’s unwanted records

• First team to concede nine goals at home in the Champions League;
• Second French team to concede nine goals in a European competition (Strasbourg 2-10 MTK Budapest in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in October 1961);
• Nine goals conceded for the second time in their history (1-9 against Marseille in April 1940).

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇮🇹 here.