Matchweek 4 of the UEFA Champions League saw plenty of eye-opening results as Paris Saint-Germain went top of the table with a 6-0 win over Villarreal. Real Madrid joined PSG as the only two teams with a perfect record so far, but were made to sweat in a 3-2 win away to AEK Athens.
Arsenal remained third after a 2-1 win over Slavia Prague, while debutants Como raised eyebrows with a 9-1 thrashing of Lens to go fourth. Barcelona handed Aston Villa a 3-0 defeat, but Atletico Madrid lost 0-2 to Bayern Munich and Real Betis lost 1-2 to Borussia Dortmund as the Bundesliga got one over on LALIGA.
Manchester United pulled off a stirring 3-2 comeback win over AS Roma, but Liverpool were on the wrong end of that same scoreline, going down to Fenerbahce. As for the Italian clubs, Inter romped past Feyenoord 3-0, but Napoli were hammered 1-4 away to FC Porto.
By The Numbers brings you the best stats from MD4 of the 2026-27 UCL league phase:
4
Manchester United earned their fourth UCL win after trailing by 2+ goals, now tied with Real Madrid for the most such wins in competition history. This was the the first time United produced such a comeback since a PL game vs Aston Villa in December 2023 (3-2). They last did it in the UCL in October 2021 vs Atalanta.
1
Roma are the first team since 2010-11 to lose multiple games in a UCL season after leading in the 80th minute or later. Furthermore, Roma became the first team in European Cup history to lose two games after leading by multiple goals (at any point in the game) in the same season.
6
No player has been directly involved in more goals for Manchester United this season than Matheus Cunha (6 - 4 goals, 2 assists). The Brazilian has now scored 3 goals in 4 UEFA Champions League appearances for Manchester United, after going goalless in 12 in the competition prior.
44/50
Excluding shootouts, Bruno Fernandes has now taken 50 penalties for Manchester United, scoring 44 of them. Only Ruud van Nistelrooy (5) scored more penalty goals in UEFA Champions League for Man United than Bruno Fernandes (4)
27
Since his Roma debut in January, Donyell Malen has scored 27 goals in all competitions. Only Harry Kane (39) has scored more times for a club in Europe's big five leagues in that period.
1/14
Manchester United have kept just one clean sheet in 14 matches in all competitions this season, against Sabah on Sept. 10.
100
Kylian Mbappé reached 100 career goal contributions in his 102nd match in the UEFA Champions League (74 goals, 26 assists) Only Lionel Messi reached the milestone in fewer games (101).
6
Mbappé has scored in 6 consecutive UEFA Champions League games for Real Madrid (6 goals), tying his longest scoring streak in the competition (also 6 games for Paris Saint-Germain from November 2021-September 2022).
10
This was Jude Bellingham's tenth UCL goal as a Real Madrid player, one more than all other English players have scored combined for Real Madrid (McManaman 5, Beckham 2, Woodgate 1, Owen 1).
28.5
Both of Fede Valverde's goals this season have been game winners in the UEFA Champions League (also against Inter Milan in MD1). Scored from 28.5 yards (26.1 mts), that was Valverde's longest career goal in the UEFA Champions League.
9 and 2
Valverde's late game winner was Real Madrid's ninth game-winning goal in the 90th minute (second this season - also against Roma), most of any team in UCL history. Real Madrid are also only the second team to score a 90th-minute winner in multiple away games in a UEFA Champions League season (vs Roma and AEK Athens), along with Atlético de Madrid in 2021-22 (2).
1
AEK's Aboubakary Koïta became the first Mauritania international to score in the UEFA Champions League.
14
Lamine Yamal scored his 14th UEFA Champions League goal. Aged 19, it's the most a teenager has ever scored in the competition, breaking a tie with Kylian Mbappé. Yamal turns 20 after this season (in July)
23
Only Lionel Messi (120) and Luis Suárez (25) have scored more goals for Barcelona in the UEFA Champions League than Raphinha (23), with the Brazilian going level with Robert Lewandowski. Raphinha passed Rivaldo (22) for most goals by a Brazilian for Barcelona in the UEFA Champions League.
7
Raphinha scored the seventh brace of his UCL career, tied with Vinícius Jr. for the second most by a Brazilian after Neymar (9).
19
Raphinha's 19 goals this season in all competitions are the most among players in Europe's top 5 leagues (Mbappé is second with 16)
18
Barcelona ended of run of 18-games without a clean sheet in the UEFA Champions League. This was their first clean sheet in the UCL since Apr. 2025 vs Borussia Dortmund (4-0 win).
3
Aston Villa suffered their joint-heaviest defeat in major European competition, having also lost by three goals to Royal Antwerp in September 1975 (1-4) and Inter Milan in November 1990 (0-3), both in the UEFA Cup.
0/6
Liverpool haven't won any of their six away games against Turkish teams in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League, losing five of them, and the last four in a row. They have never lost five consecutive away games against sides from one nation in the European Cup/Champions League.
10 and 3
Liverpool's 10 goals conceded this UCL season are the club's most through four games in a League Phase/Group Stage of a single UCL season. This is also the first time Liverpool have conceded 3+ goals in three consecutive games in major European competition. It was also the first time Liverpool conceded 3 set-piece goals in a UEFA Champions League game (excluding penalties).
2
With goals from Archie Brown and Mason Greenwood for Fenerbahce against Liverpool, this was only the second time ever that two English players have scored against an English team in a UEFA Champions League match, after Frank Lampard and Wayne Bridge for Chelsea against Arsenal in April 2004.
1
Mason Greenwood is the first player to score a direct free-kick against Liverpool in the UEFA Champions League since Lionel Messi for Barcelona in May 2019.
1
Alexander Isak's goal (68:25) came just two minutes and 46 seconds after coming on as a substitute. This was Isak's first goal in 10 career UCL appearances with Liverpool.
19y 127d
At 19y-127d, Trey Nyoni is the second youngest player to score for Liverpool in the UEFA Champions League after Trent Alexander-Arnold (19y-10d) in 2017 vs Maribor.
9
Como are the second team to score nine goals in a UEFA Champions League match and the first to do it away from home. Only Bayern Munich (2024-25 vs Dinamo Zagreb, 9-2) have scored nine.
8
Como's eight-goal margin of victory over Lens is tied for the largest in a UEFA Champions League game. (Real Madrid 8-0 Malmö in 2015, Liverpool 8-0 Besiktas in 2007).
8
Nico Paz is up to 8 goal contributions (3G, 5 A) this season in the UEFA Champions League, breaking a tie with Tasos Douvikas, Harry Kane and Lamine Yamal (7 each) for most in the competition.
3
Tasos Douvikas became the third Greek international with a UEFA Champions League hat trick, after Kostas Mitroglou in 2013-14 for Olympiacos and Vangelis Pavlidis in 2024-25 for Benfica. He's also now scored Como's first hat trick in UEFA competitions.
4
Douvikas has scored in all four of Como's UEFA Champions League games this season, joining Alessandro Del Piero as the only player to score in a team's first 4 games in the competition (Del Piero scored in Juventus' first five in 1995-96).
5
Douvikas is the fifth player to score a UCL hat trick away from home for an Italian club and the first since Josip Ilicic for Atalanta in 2019-20 at Valencia (also Marco Simone, Pippo Inzaghi x3, Andriy Shevchkenko).
1
PSG became the first team in UEFA Champions League history to score 4+ goals in four consecutive games in the competition.
PSG also became the first team to score six goals in an away game against Spanish opposition in a UEFA Champions League (6-0 was the largest such margin of victory).
PSG also became the first team in UCL history to score 20 goals in the first four games of a UCL season.
This was the quickest a team (16:02) scored 4 goals in UCL history - the previous record was held by Real Madrid (20 minutes) vs Dinamo Zagreb in 2011.
35
There have been 35 goals in 7 UEFA Champions League matches between RB Leipzig (11) and Manchester City (24). The average of 5.0 goals-per-game is the highest of any fixture to be played 5+ times in the competition.
13 and 7
Erling Haaland has now scored 13 career goals in 9 appearances against RB Leipzig, his most against any opponent. Haaland's 7 goals against RBL in the UEFA Champions League are also his most against any opponent.
23
With the loss to Arsenal, Slavia Prague have now tied the longest ever winless run by a side in European Cup history (23 games - D8 L15), levelling AEK Athens between 1989 and 2006 and FCSB between 2006 and 2013.
16
Viktor Gyökeres now has 16 career UEFA Champions League goal contributions (12 goals, 4 assists), tied with Emil Forsberg and Freddie Ljungberg for second most among Swedish internationals after Zlatan Ibrahimovic's 72 (48 goals, 24 assists).
10
Noni Madueke ended a 10-game scoreless drought in the UEFA Champions League; his first since a brace against Club Brugge last December.
10
Harry Kane just missed out on tying Cristiano Ronaldo's record for longest scoring streak in UEFA Champions League history (11), as Kane went goalless against Atletico Madrid, ending his streak at 10 games.
4
Lennart Karl became only the fourth player to score five UEFA Champions League goals before turning 19, after Lamine Yamal (11), Kylian Mbappé (10) and Raúl González (6).