Crazy night in the Champions League! 43 goals scored in 9 games, second in history. Last year’s top 4 teams won a wild victory + the Serie A champion was beaten 2-6

On October 22, the first 9 games of the third round of the 2025-26 UEFA Champions League will be played. As a result, goals were scored in 8 of the 9 games and the outcome was decided, and many games also resulted in big scores. In the end, a crazy Champions League goal night was born.

A total of 43 goals were scored in these 9 games (an average of 4.8 goals per game). This data refreshed the Champions League's single match day scoring average record list, ranking second in history, second only to October 21, 2014, when a total of 40 goals were scored in 8 games, averaging 5 goals per game.

As the top four teams in last year's Champions League, Paris Saint-Germain, Inter Milan, Arsenal and Barcelona played hand in hand tonight, and all defeated their opponents by a huge score. They also showed once again why they were able to stay in the Champions League last season until the end.

Among them, the defending champion Paris swept last season's Bundesliga runner-up Bayer Leverkusen 7-2, while Barcelona severely defeated the Greek league hegemon Olympiakos 6-1. In addition, Inter Milan and Arsenal defeated San Giulos United and Atletico Madrid respectively with a score of 4-0. The two teams have not conceded a goal since the start of the game. They are the only two teams in the Champions League that have conceded zero goals so far.

There was another big-scoring game in this round from Serie A champion Napoli, but they were the losing side. They were defeated by Eindhoven 2-6 as a guest in the Netherlands.

This game not only gave PSV a crucial three points, but also rewrote the record of European competitions - Naples became the first team in the five major European leagues to concede more than 6 goals in a single away game in the Netherlands.