Highest-scoring Champions League deteriorate yet

There are still 4 games to go in a 2017/18 UEFA Champions League, though this is already reliable as a competition’s highest-scoring book of all time in terms of goals per game.

Roberto Firmino’s initial of a dusk during Anfield – Liverpool’s fourth – took a sum to 381 for this season, one some-more than a prior record set in 2016/17. By a finish of a Reds’ 5-2 win opposite Roma it stood during 384 goals in 121 matches, around 3.17 per game, i.e. each 28 minutes. Last deteriorate finished with an normal of 3.04 per diversion (30 mins per goal) and even if there are no some-more goals this season, a normal will come out as 3.07 (every 29 minutes).

Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 15 of this season’s goals – usually underneath 4% of a altogether sum – and is on aim to mangle his possess record of 17 in a singular campaign, set in 2013/14. Curiously, if goals by a 2017/18 tip marksman are excluded, usually 362 have been scored – during a comparatively medium rate of 3.02 per game.

While this has been a many goal-heavy book of a UEFA Champions League to date, it has not been a highest-scoring book ever. A strong 449 goals were netted in 2000/01, despite during a slower rate (2.86 per game) since 157 matches were played in that season’s contest that had dual organisation stages.

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