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Fermín López has become the first Spanish player to score a hat-trick for FC Barcelona in the history of the Champions League.
Olympiakos have never won away to a Spanish team in European competition, losing 15 of their 17 previous matches (D2). The only games they managed to avoid defeat in were both against Deportivo de La Coruña, drawing against them in 2001 (2-2) and 2004 (0-0).
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Highlights.
Barcelona were beaten by Paris SG in their previous UEFA Champions League game, but have never lost multiple home games in the group stage of a single edition of the European Cup/Champions League.
No Greek team has ever won away to a Spanish opponent in the UEFA Champions League, with 18 of the 22 such fixtures now ending in defeat (D4). The latest came with Olympiacos’ 6–1 loss at Barcelona, their first visit to Spain in the competition since a 3–1 defeat at the same venue in October 2017.
At 18 years and 100 days old, Lamine Yamal is the second youngest player to score a penalty in the history of the Champions League, after Bojan Krkić against Sporting CP in November 2008 (18 years and 90 days), both playing for FC Barcelona.
Barcelona have now scored in each of their last 23 UEFA Champions League matches, netting a total of 64 goals in that run. Their current streak is now their outright second-longest scoring sequence in the competition, behind only the 29-game run recorded under Pep Guardiola between November 2009 and March 2012.
Two players under the age of 19 (Lamine Yamal and Dro Fernández with Barça) have assisted in the same Champions League game for the second time in history; the first was in April 1995 (Nwankwo Kanu and Patrick Kluivert with Ajax against Bayern Munich).
Barcelona’s Pedri continues to lead all players in the UEFA Champions League this season for line-breaking passes made under high-intensity pressure, now up to 23 after the win over Olympiacos. Meanwhile, Frenkie de Jong remains top for pass completion under similar pressure (79/82 – 96.3%, minimum 50 attempted).
Since the start of last season, Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal has averaged more completed dribbles per 90 minutes than any other player in the UEFA Champions League (4.7 – min. 500 minutes played). He also maintains the highest success rate among wingers (58.1%) to have attempted at least 30 dribbles in that time.
