Match Details.
AS Monaco stuns Barcelona in the Uefa Champions League to hand Hansi Flick his first defeat of the season as a manager of the Club!
Monaco have ended a run of 14 successive UEFA Champions League games without a win (D3 L11) with their first win on MD1 of a campaign since 2016-17 against Tottenham (2-1).
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Highlights.
This was just Barcelona’s third ever defeat in their opening game of a UEFA Champions League campaign after 1997-98 (2-3 v Newcastle United) and 2021-22 (0-3 v FC Bayern München).
The red card for Eric García is the fastest (9:32) for a player from Barcelona in the history of the Champions League.
Lamine Yamal’s equaliser for Barcelona against Monaco makes him the second-youngest goalscorer in Champions League history (17 years, 68 days old). First is to Ansu Fati (17 and 40).
Lamine Yamal is the 13th different teenager to score for Barcelona in the UEFA Champions League, only Ajax (14) have had more.
Robert Lewandowski played his 121st Champions League game, making him the 20th player with the most appearances in the competition, surpassing the 120 of Pepe and Roberto Carlos.
Lamine Yamal, has now scored a goal in two consecutive games for the first time with Barcelona (57 apps).
George Ilenikhena (18 years and 34 days) is the youngest Champions League goal scorer ever for AS Monaco, breaking the previous record set by Kylian Mbappé in 2017 (18 years and 63 days).
Barcelona have lost 12 of their last 26 games in the Champions league (46.2%), one more than in their previous 79 games in the competition (13.9%).
Ter Stegen in the Champions League with Barça:
- 85 Matches
- 99 Goals conceded