Highest-scoring Champions League deteriorate yet?

With 5 games to go in a 2017/18 UEFA Champions League, this is backing adult to be a competition’s highest-scoring book of all time in terms of goals per game.

The stream record was set in 2016/17 when 380 goals were scored opposite a 125 UEFA Champions League games, from organisation theatre to final – during an normal of 3.04 per game. However, entering this week’s semi-finals, 377 goals have already been purebred during a 120 matches of 2017/18, that is around 3.14 per game, i.e. each 28 minutes. Should that strike rate be confirmed in a semis, design final season’s sum to have been eclipsed by full time of Tuesday’s initial leg between Roma and Liverpool.

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 16 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-dense 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 they came 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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