UCL MATCHDAY 3(PART 2) STATS

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Aged 18 years and 350 days, Callum Hudson-Odoi is the youngest player to start a Champions League match for Chelsea since Josh McEachran in December 2010 against Marseille (17 years,282 days).

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Jadon Malik Sancho has become just the fourth Englishman to appear in 10 Champions League matches as a teenager, after Theo Walcott (17), Trent Alexander-Arnold (12) and Jack Wilshere (11).

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Since the start of the 2016-17 season, Michy Batshuayi has scored nine goals as a substitute for Chelsea - four more than any other Blues player. 

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Barcelona forward Lionel Messi has become the first player in Champions League history to score at least once in 15 consecutive seasons in the competition. Slavia Prague have become the 33rd different opponent Messi has scored a Champions League goal against; joining both Raul and Cristiano Ronaldo as the three players to have scored against the most different sides in the competition.

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Dries Mertens has scored 115th and 116th  goals for S.S.C Napoli (284 games in all competitions), surpassing Diego Armando Maradona(115 goals for Napoli between 1984 to 1991) to become the club's second highest goalscorer of all-time

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Erling Haaland is only the second teenager in Champions League history to score in each of his first three appearances in the competition, after Karim Benzema. The 19-year-old has also become the first ever player to score as many as six goals in his first three Champions League appearances.

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Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's second goal this evening was Liverpool's 200th Champions League goal, becoming the fourth English team to net as many alongside Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea. The 26-year-old has also become the first player to score two goals from outside the box in a Champions League game since Lionel Messi in April 2019 against Manchester United.

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Since the start of the 2017-18 season, Liverpool’s Roberto Firmino has more assists in the Champions League than any other player (11).

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Liverpool have now won 25 of their last 30 matches in all competitions (Won 25, Draw 3, Lost 2), with that run including seven victories in the Champions League.

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