{"id":829,"date":"2026-03-19T14:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=829"},"modified":"2026-03-19T14:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:57:13","slug":"octaves-of-madness-the-68-goals-scored-are-close-to-the-historical-record-of-almost-70-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=829","title":{"rendered":"Octaves of madness! The 68 goals scored are close to the historical record of almost 70 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph xai-icon-container ue-c-article--first-letter-highlighted\">Barcelona&#8217;s seven-to-two win over Newcastle has become another scoring milestone for the Blaugranas in the Champions League. The third in its history. <strong>The previous ones were in 2012 and 2016, with Messi in full effervescence.<\/strong><span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph xai-icon-container\">The first of them, that of 2012, represents the starting point in terms of the cul\u00e9s&#8217; particular scoring success (considering that the Argentine star scored five of the seven goals against Leverkusen); but if we stop at the recently concluded round of 16 phase of the Champions League, <strong>the victory at the Camp Nou<\/strong> It joins one of the qualifying rounds with the most goals in the history of the competition.<span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<figure class=\"ue-c-article__media ue-c-article__media--video  video-player\"><figcaption class=\"ue-c-article__media-caption\" itemprop=\"description\">\n<p><span class=\"ue-c-article__media-description\">Barcelona 7-2 Newcastle Champions League Resum\u00e9<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph xai-icon-container\"><strong>A total of 68 goals<\/strong> were scored in this first qualifying round that put the best 16 teams in the Old Continent into contention. The best of the modern era and in the Top 3 of the Champions League ranking. In fact, we have to go back to<strong> the first (71) <\/strong>y <strong>to the fifth edition (74)<\/strong> to find two moments with more targets materialized. <span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph xai-icon-container\">He<strong> 8-2<\/strong> global del PSG al Chelsea; e<strong>l 8-3 del Barcelona al Newcastle<\/strong>; Atleti&#8217;s 7-5 to Tottenham; the 10-2 of Bayern against Atalanta&#8230; Or even 5-1 of Real Madrid and City or the<strong> 4-1 <\/strong>from Liverpool to Galatasaray or Sporting CP&#8217;s 5-3 defeat to Bodo highlight an aspect that could well generate debate: Has we returned to the times when there was so much inequality between the teams that participated in the European Cup or, in reality, the teams are better and competitiveness has grown?<span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"ue-c-article__subheadline\">Messi and Bayern<\/h2>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph xai-icon-container\">If we stop at the round of 16 in the history of the Champions League, there are two names that stand out above average. At the individual level, <strong>Leo Messi;<\/strong> At a collective and team level, the <strong>Bayern Munich. <\/strong><span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph xai-icon-container\">The Argentine star scored a total of 29 goals in the round of 16, 22.5% of the goals he scored in the Champions League (129). <strong>The second, of course, is Cristiano Ronaldo with 25, although he is still the competition&#8217;s top scorer with 140 goals. <\/strong>The third in contention is none other than Robert Lewandowski, who with the two against Newcastle reaches 19 goals out of a total of 107. <span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph xai-icon-container\">The attacker with the best percentage in this phase is Thomar M\u00fcller with 15 goals of the 57 (26.3%) he scored with Bayern Munich, coincidentally, the club with the best numbers in the first knockout round of the Champions League.<span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<figure class=\"ue-c-article__media ue-c-article__media--video  video-player\"><figcaption class=\"ue-c-article__media-caption\" itemprop=\"description\">\n<p><span class=\"ue-c-article__media-description\">Atalanta 1-6 Bayern Munich Champions League Summary<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph xai-icon-container\">He <strong>Bayern Munich <\/strong>He has a total of 104 goals in the round of 16, 24.2% of the 438 goals he has scored in his history. Barcelona follows with 83 goals out of 415 (20%). The third, Real Madrid. <strong>The competition&#8217;s top scorer (504 goals) has 73 in the round of 16, 14.5%. <\/strong><span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph xai-icon-container\">From here, it is worth asking how much of a key the <strong>&#8216;offensive gales&#8217;<\/strong> and then lift the Orejona at the end of the season. What do you think?<span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph xai-icon-container\">Two reasonably recent editions serve to illustrate the issue at hand, the biggest wins in a round of 16 match were carried out by the <strong>Bayern <\/strong>(7-0 against Basel in 2012 and <strong>Shakhtar <\/strong>in 2015, but was eliminated in the semifinals by Real Madrid and Barcelona, \u200b\u200brespectively); the City to <strong>Schalke <\/strong>and Leipzig for the same result in 2019 or 2023); he <strong>Barcelona<\/strong>with the aforementioned 7-1 defeat of Leverkusen in 2012; or also, if you want, the 6-0 that Real Madrid beat Schalke in 2014.<span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph xai-icon-container\">Of all of them, only <strong>Manchester City and Real Madrid l<\/strong>They managed to lift the Champions League in 2023 (the first and only one for the cityzens) and in 2014 (the tenth for the whites. <span class=\"xai-icon\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona&#8217;s seven-to-two win over Newcastle has become another scoring milestone for the Blaugranas in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}