When Italian football fell La Liga wins, Serie A loses

The share of the first night from the second week of the European Champions League was 32 goals and the share of the second night was 46 goals.

According to Ambassador Arjan, the second week of the European Champions League had 3 significant events: the historical record of scoring goals in one week of the league stage, the complete failure of the Italian representatives against the opponents and the record of Real Madrid and the victory of all the league teams. In this same week, Luis Enrique's Paris Saint-Germain continued his unbeaten streak against English teams.

The second week had a disappointing result for Italian football. All four representatives of this country lost: Inter lost to Club Brugge at home with a score of 4-3, AS Roma lost to Real Madrid at home with a score of 4-3, Napoli lost with a score of 3-1 at Villarreal and Como also lost at home to Feyenoord with a score of 3-2.

On the other hand, all five representatives of Spain won. Barcelona won 4-1 at Galatasaray, Atletico Madrid defeated Manchester United 2-0, Villarreal defeated Napoli 3-1, Real Madrid won 4-3 in Rome, and Real Betis beat Porto 3-2.

Of course, only two of these wins and losses were in face-to-face matches; Rome's loss to Real and Napoli's loss to Villarreal.

In just one point, Inter Milan, which has been the best Italian team in recent years and has reached the Champions League final twice, has only won one and lost seven in its last eight games in the Champions League. His only win was against Dortmund. In these 8 matches, he scored 11 goals and conceded 18 goals. During this time, they lost to Club Brugge, Real, Boudo/Guilmet, Arsenal, Liverpool and Atlético.

Real Madrid; Conquest of Italy 10 times

Real Madrid's comeback in Rome wasn't just another thrilling win in the Champions League. This result marked Real's 10th consecutive victory in away games against Italian teams. This series started in 2016 and its 10 victories were achieved against these teams, respectively:

- Napoli, 2017: 3-1 win

- Juventus, 2018: 3-0 victory

- Inter, 2020: 2-0 win

- Atalanta, 2021: 1-0 victory

- Inter, 2021: 1-0 win

- Napoli, 2023: 3-2 victory

- Atalanta, 2024: 3-2 victory

In these 10 matches, Real has defeated Roma 3 times, Napoli 2 times, Inter 2 times, Atalanta 2 times and Juventus once at their home. This process shows that the superiority of Madrid in Italy was not limited to one team or one period.

Of course, one should be careful about the previous record: the sources who announced this record consider it the first string of 10 in the history of European competitions, but do not specify the previous record holder and the exact number of consecutive victories. Therefore, it is not correct to attribute the previous record to a specific team without further documentation.

Paris Saint-Germain; Englishman's nightmare

Paris Saint-Germain Luis Enrique also recorded a significant record in the second week. The 4-2 win at Manchester City was the team's 10th consecutive game without defeat against English clubs in the Champions League: 8 wins and 2 draws, with 26 goals scored and 10 goals conceded. Of course, they were very lucky in this game and the ball hit the goal post 3 times and they scored 4 goals with an expectation of 1.83 goals, but Manchester City could only open the team's goal 2 times with an XG of 2.63. City had a total of 27 shots.

The process of Enrique's team started with the semi-final of the 2024-2025 Champions League season against Arsenal. At that stage, the Parisians defeated Arsenal in 2 games with the results of 1-0 and 2-1. After that, they beat Tottenham 5-3, drew 1-1 against Newcastle, beat Chelsea 5-2 and 3-0, and won 2-0 against Liverpool in 2 games. In the final of the last season, after a 1-1 draw against Arsenal, they won in penalty kicks. The recent win against Manchester City brought this streak to 10 matches.

In the 18 matches of the second week of the Champions League, 78 goals were scored; That means an average of 4.33 goals per match. The previous record of this stage of the competition was 71 goals, which was recorded in the third week of last season. In this way, the second week of this season left a new record with 7 more goals.

The share of the first night was 32 goals and the share of the second night was 46 goals. On the second night, Liverpool won 6-3 against Lask, Real Madrid won 4-3 in Rome and Paris Saint-Germain won 4-2 at Manchester City's home. Aston Villa defeated Fenerbahçe 6-0.

The scoring record was not just the result of a few high-scoring matches; At least 5 goals were scored in 9 out of 18 games this week. In the second week, the Champions League turned into a festival of goals rather than looking like cautious and calculated nights.