After 4-4 draw at Juve: Dortmund set another Champions League record | OneFootball

Two goals conceded in stoppage time cost BVB what seemed like a certain two points during their away match in Turin. Apparently, they have recovered well from this, as shown by their 1-0 victory over VfL Wolfsburg on Sunday. Additionally, with this draw, they have once again entered the record books of the Champions League.

The first 4-4 in Bundesliga history also involved Borussia Dortmund. Away at TSV 1860 Munich, back then still at the Grünwalder Straße stadium, BVB played to this result against the hosts on November 30, 1965. Just like last week in Turin, Dortmund squandered a 4-2 lead, although not in the dying moments of the match.

With the 4-4 at Juventus Turin, they have once again found their way into the history books. It is the highest-scoring draw ever recorded in the Champions League—tied with three other matches. Coincidentally, the first 4-4 also involved Juventus Turin and, in fact, also came against a German club.

On September 13, 2000, neutral spectators enjoyed a spectacular 4-4 between Juve and Hamburger SV. In 2015, the same scoreline occurred at the end of the match between Bayer Leverkusen and AS Roma. And in 2019, Chelsea’s home game against Ajax Amsterdam also ended 4-4. Now, BVB joins this list of the highest-scoring draws in Champions League history—a distinction they would surely have preferred to avoid.

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Record Victory and Record Draw Now by BVB

Borussia Dortmund already holds the absolute record for the highest-scoring match in Champions League history, thanks to that memorable November 22, 2016, when they dispatched Legia Warsaw 8-4 at Signal Iduna Park. Never before or since have a full dozen goals been scored in a single Champions League match, as happened that day, when Marco Reus and Shinji Kagawa each contributed a brace to BVB’s total of eight goals.

There’s also the record for the youngest player ever fielded in this competition, set by Yousouffa Moukoko—now at FC Copenhagen, BVB’s opponent—who was then still with Borussia Dortmund. He was just 16 years and 18 days old when coach Lucien Favre sent him onto the field on December 8, 2020, in the match at Zenit St. Petersburg. The fact that Favre had to leave his post just a few days later had nothing to do with this personnel decision, which brought BVB another record in Europe’s premier competition—one that will be very hard to break.

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