🚨 Musiala breaks the deadlock, Bayern hit historic CL milestone | OneFootball

FC Bayern’s new Champions League season got underway on Thursday evening with the opener against FK Bodø/Glimt — and in their very first game, the German record champions reached a historic milestone. Before the match, the Munich side needed just one more goal to break through an impressive mark.

Vincent Kompany’s team went into kickoff on exactly 899 goals in the Champions League, or the European Cup. Against Bodø/Glimt, the moment finally arrived: Bayern scored their 900th goal in Europe’s most important club competition.

That makes the Munich club only the second team ever to reach this magical mark. Real Madrid still lead the way. Los Blancos are on 1,139 goals and remain the benchmark in this statistic. For Bayern, though, the 900th goal is yet another impressive testament to their decades-long success story on Europe’s biggest football stage.

Bayern crack the magical 900 — thanks to Musiala

With the goal, Bayern also extended their extraordinary run in Champions League opening matches. Since 2003, the record champions have now won their first game in Europe’s elite competition in all 22 of their appearances. Against the underdogs from Norway, Kompany’s side once again lived up to their status as favorites.

After the disappointing 0-0 draw at FC Schalke 04 last weekend, the Munich side also had something to make up for. For the first time after 59 straight competitive matches, Bayern had failed to score in Gelsenkirchen. Now, at the start of their Champions League campaign, they delivered the hoped-for and fitting response — one that came with a place in the history books.

Who would score the milestone goal had been completely open beforehand. Many experts and fans had tipped Harry Kane. The 33-year-old began the season with big ambitions after an outstanding previous campaign (14 goals in 13 Champions League matches) and is chasing legends like Ruud van Nistelrooy and Thomas Müller in the all-time scorers list.

But in the end, it was not the English striker who was given this very special distinction, but Jamal Musiala, who was back in the starting lineup for the first time after news of his neurological dysfunction became public. With his goal shortly after halftime, Musiala wrote his name into the club’s history as the player who scored FC Bayern’s 900th European Cup goal.

Even if Kane is likely to break more personal milestones over the course of the season, this historic moment belongs to Musiala. For FC Bayern, the new Champions League season has begun straight away with the hoped-for, truly special milestone.

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