Targets glut: Twelve targets have solely ever been scored in a single match within the UEFA Champions League: Borussia Dortmund’s 8-4 win away to Legia Warsaw in 2016 – it stays a file in the present day. Nevertheless, the eight targets within the 4-4 draw between Juventus and Borussia Dortmund are nonetheless historic: by no means earlier than have extra targets been scored in a single half (there have been eight targets on just one different earlier event: Bayern Munich’s 9-2 win over Dinamo Zagreb a yr in the past, when the rating was 3-0 at half-time).
Highest-scoring draw: There has by no means been a higher-scoring attract Champions League historical past than the 4-4 in Turin. This scoreline occurred for the fifth time on Tuesday. The 4 earlier matches with eight targets however no winner have been Hamburger SV vs. Juventus (13 September 2000), Chelsea vs. Liverpool (14 April 2009), Bayer Leverkusen vs. AS Roma (20 October 2015) and Chelsea vs. Ajax (5 November 2019).
Historical past repeats itself: The 2 head coaches on this week’s match have been additionally concerned within the first 4-4 within the UEFA Champions League on 13 September 2000, nearly 25 years in the past precisely. They have been additionally among the many goalscorers: Igor Tudor put Juventus 1-0 up on the Volksparkstadion within the sixth minute. Having been 3-1 down, Niko Kovac then scored the purpose to place HSV 4-3 in entrance within the 82nd minute. However Filippo Inzaghi then accomplished his hat-trick to finish the scoring at 4-4. Kovac and Tudor additionally performed alongside one another 31 occasions for Croatia.
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Penalty: There was initially a minor confrontation between Serhou Guirassy and Ramy Bensebaini, the designated penalty taker, about who would take the spot-kick awarded for handball within the 86th minute. When Bensebaini then coolly slotted house to make it 4-2 for BVB, the 2 gamers celebrated the purpose collectively and high-fived one another. Bensebaini thus continued his good file from the spot. The Algerian has transformed each considered one of his penalties so far (9 for Mönchengladbach, one for Algeria). On 13 Might 2023, he even beat Gregor Kobel from the spot in Borussia Dortmund’s 5-2 victory over Borussia Mönchengladbach.
First purpose: Yan Couto scored his first purpose for Borussia Dortmund on his fortieth look. The Brazilian scored within the 74th minute to place BVB 3-2 forward.
When he scores… Since Karim Adeyemi arrived at Borussia Dortmund in the summertime of 2022, he has scored in 21 video games and netted 27 targets in complete. BVB haven’t misplaced a single a type of video games: the file stands at 18 wins and 4 attracts.
Compiled by Boris Rupert
