Ronaldo's streak and Firmino's away-day achievement - Champions League in Opta numbers

14 February 2018

The Champions League restores this week and the tie of the round observes Real Madrid have Paris Saint-Germain in the opening leg of their keep going 16 conflict on Wednesday.

Well off the pace in LaLiga, Madrid's sole outstanding any expectation of catching noteworthy flatware this season comes in Europe, as Zinedine Zidane's side hope to lift the acclaimed trophy for the third time in progression.

Be that as it may, PSG, runaway pioneers in Ligue 1, have Neymar in their positions and the Brazilian, close by the deadly Edinson Cavani and Kylian Mbappe, would love to get one over on Barcelona's savage old adversaries.

Wednesday's other attach sees Liverpool go to Porto. The two clubs tasted Champions League eminence halfway through the earlier decade yet have discovered achievement harder to drop by since those powerful days.

With the assistance of Opta, we do the math in front of the primary legs of two interesting ties.

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Genuine Madrid v Paris Saint-Germain

10 - Under Zidane, Madrid have won 10 of their 14 Champions League knockout recreations (D2 L2), lifting the trophy twice in the same number of seasons. As a major aspect of this run, they've won each of the six of their recreations at the Santiago Bernabeu.

0 - PSG have not advanced more remote than the quarter-finals in the last five Champions League seasons. Their best execution to date is a semi-last in 1994-95, when they were wiped out by AC Milan.

2 - Last season, Madrid turned into the primary group since Inter in 2010 to win the Champions League subsequent to completing second in their gathering.

4 - PSG have lost four of their last six away amusements in the Champions League knockout stages, winning one (2-1 v Chelsea in March 2016) and drawing one.

19 - Top scorer in the historical backdrop of the Champions League (114 objectives), Cristiano Ronaldo has gotten 19 times in his last 11 appearances in the opposition, incorporating into each and every amusement this season.

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Porto v Liverpool

4 - Liverpool were one of four groups to stay unbeaten in this current season's gathering stages, close by Barcelona, Besiktas and Tottenham.

3 - Porto have lost their last three Champions League knockout diversions (one objective scored, nine surrendered).

23 - Only PSG (25) scored a greater number of objectives than Liverpool (23) in the gathering stages. The Reds likewise had more touches inside the restriction box than some other group (251).

8 - Porto scored more objectives from set-pieces (eight) than some other group in this present season's gathering stages.

9 - In his initial six Champions League recreations, Roberto Firmino has scored six objectives and conveyed three helps. Likewise, no player was specifically engaged with a greater number of objectives than Firmino far from home in this current season's gatherings (four objectives, two helps).