CL: BVB striker Guirassy draws level with this Italian star | OneFootball

With his goal to make it 1-0 in Dortmund's win over Atalanta Bergamo, Serhou Guirassy reached a mark in the Champions League statistics that puts him on par with an Italian football legend. This was only Guirassy's 27th appearance in the Champions League, after which he has achieved this remarkable tally.

Not only was this 2-0 victory on Tuesday the 100th win for BVB in the Champions League or European Cup. Striker Serhou Guirassy also accomplished something that makes football statistics enthusiasts sit up and take notice.

As fussballdaten.de pointed out, a player who ended his career with 46 goals in 81 Champions League appearances had scored the same number of goals as Serhou Guirassy after 27 games.

This player was active, among others, for AC Parma, Atalanta Bergamo, Juventus Turin, and AC Milan. With the latter, he won the Champions League twice, after losing the final with Juve to Real Madrid in 1998. The player in question is Filippo Inzaghi, nicknamed "Pippo," who, with his 46 goals, ranks 17th on the all-time Champions League top scorers list. "Pippo," who also became a world champion in Germany in 2006, scored as many goals as the legendary Eusebio, who, however, needed only 64 appearances for his 46 goals.

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Inzaghi won the Champions League twice

Filippo Inzaghi also had 19 goals after 27 appearances, having scored his first goal on September 17, 1997, for Juventus at Feyenoord Rotterdam. Serhou Guirassy's first goal came on October 20, 2020, when he scored Stade Rennes' only goal in a 1-1 draw against FK Krasnodar. Coincidentally, this was also Guirassy's Champions League debut.

He made three more appearances for Stade Rennes in the Champions League, scoring another goal. Since then, he has played 23 games for BVB, scoring 17 times. Guirassy will have his next chance to score in the Champions League as early as next Tuesday, when the return leg at Atalanta Bergamo takes place.

Incidentally, another perhaps even greater legend of world football scored a total of 19 goals in this competition: Johan Cruyff, with whom Guirassy is currently level. However, during Cruyff's era, there were far fewer matches in the European Cup, which was played entirely in a knockout format. With his 20th goal, Guirassy would catch up, among others, to another former Dortmund player: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang currently stands at this mark, but is still active.

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