There have been 43 objectives scored, 5 pink playing cards handed out and 6 penalties awarded – of which 5 had been transformed.
It was a relentless night of Champions League soccer on Tuesday.
Final season’s winners Paris St-Germain hit seven previous Leverkusen, with each groups having a participant despatched off and the German aspect’s Alejandro Grimaldo lacking a spot-kick.
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PSV Eindhoven fought again from a purpose down earlier than working riot in a 6-2 win towards Italian champions Napoli.
Arsenal, Newcastle and Manchester Metropolis all claimed convincing victories, with Metropolis’s Erling Haaland scoring for a twelfth consecutive sport.
There have been objectives and drama aplenty, so BBC Sport has dived into the stats behind an entertaining evening in Europe’s most prestigious membership match.
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Solely twice earlier than have there been extra objectives scored on a single Champions League evening than in Tuesday’s goalfest.
Final season, within the ultimate spherical of the league part, there have been a report 64 objectives.
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Nonetheless, that was when all 18 video games had been performed on the identical time, so there was a decrease goals-per-game common (3.55).
Again on 1 October 1997 there have been 44 objectives scored in 12 video games. Paul Scholes and Zinedine Zidane had been among the many names on the scoresheet as Manchester United beat Juventus 3-2 at Previous Trafford that night.
If we have a look at statistics from the attitude of a goal-per-games common throughout a number of video games, Tuesday evening has been bettered solely by one different Champions League night.
That was 11 years in the past when, on 21 October 2014, there have been 40 objectives in eight video games (5 objectives per sport).
Sergio Aguero and James Milner discovered the again of the web for Manchester Metropolis in a 2-2 draw towards CSKA Moscow – lengthy earlier than the membership bought their fingers on the Champions League trophy.
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Chelsea put six previous Maribor on the identical evening, whereas Bayern Munich and Shakhtar Donetsk each scored seven occasions in respective wins over Roma and Belarusian aspect Bate Borisov.
English golf equipment scored the best quantity of objectives on Tuesday with 9, however France – led solely by Paris St-Germain – adopted carefully behind with seven.
Solely Union Saint-Gilloise (Belgium), Benfica (Portugal), Kairat (Kazakhstan) and Pafos (Cyprus) failed to attain.
There have been 5 objectives from English gamers, with each Barcelona’s Marcus Rashford and Newcastle’s Harvey Barnes netting twice, whereas Anthony Gordon was additionally on the scoresheet for the Magpies.
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Spanish gamers scored extra, although, with Barcelona hat-trick hero Fermin Lopez accounting for half of the six objectives from gamers from his nation.
Watch highlights of each Champions League sport from 22:00 on Wednesday on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport web site and app.
There will even be a Champions League Match of the Day on BBC One on Wednesday, from 22:40 to 00:00.