The first round of UEFA Champions League group stage matches for the new 2022-2023 season saw many beautiful goals, but perhaps the most notable of them at the team level was Real Madrid’s Belgian Eden Hazard against Celtic.
After returning from Scotland with a 3-0 victory over Celtic on Tuesday evening, September 6, 2022, Real Madrid successfully began their campaign to defend their title in the first round of the group stage of the UEFA Champions League.
Hazard scored the third goal for the Maranji in the 76th minute, his first in the Champions League since November 2021, and marked an outstanding collective effort for his teammates.
That’s the goal of raising the stakes, look at how involved Kroos was, he makes the team tick.
Thank God Angelotti sees his importance pic.twitter.com/hitZ9x1uQ5
— MOKA (@RMA_moka) September 7, 2022
The Belgium international completed 33 passes from goalkeeper Joe Hart, the longest assist by any Real Madrid player to end in a goal in the Champions League, the team’s total goals (434) since 2003 till now. According to theanalyst website, season 2004.
The Royals held the ball for one minute and 37 seconds without a Celtic player touching it, starting with Toni Kroos’ foot to Luka Modric and ending between Dani Carvajal and Hazard.
Notably, Real Madrid had complete possession from 73:01 to 77:16 (4:15 minutes), in which the game was halted once for 38 seconds after a Celtic foul on Eduard Camaviga. became.
But Hazard’s goals weren’t the longest streak in the tournament since 2003-04, as Inter Milan beat Tottenham Hotspur in October 2010 through Dejan Stankovic after 35 passes.
Spanish Cristian Tello, current player of Los Angeles FC, and former player of Barcelona, holds the record for the longest consecutive passes.
Tello scored a goal for Barcelona notably on 11 December 2013 in the final round of the group stage after 40 passes against Celtic.
Barca completed 40 passes before Cristian Telo’s goal against Celtic last night – the most since full statistics began! pic.twitter.com/m0kKTTsbiu
— MailOnline Sport (@MailSport) December 12, 2013
Meanwhile, statistics specialist opta revealed that Vinicius Junior’s first Real Madrid goal against Celtic came after 22 consecutive passes.
The goal was the longest pass behind Real Madrid in the tournament since 2003-04, before Hazard broke the mark in the same match.
During the game, Vinicius opened the scoring for Real Madrid after fifty-six minutes of the start, then Modric strengthened the meringue’s lead with a second goal in the 60th minute, before Hazard completed the “Kings” hat-trick in the 77th minute.
On Wednesday, September 14, 2022, Real Madrid will host their German counterpart Leipzig at the Santiago Bernabeu, who sacked their coach Domenico Tedesco.
Source: Lebanon Debate
