Como beat Lens 9-1 to match Champions League win record

Como beat Lens 9-1 away on November 4, matching the largest winning margin in Champions League history and becoming the competition’s first away team to score nine goals. The Italian club’s third win in four matches lifted it to fourth in the league-phase standings, with nine points. Anastasios Douvikas scored three times, while Nico Paz, Lucas Da Cunha, Marc-Oliver Kempf, Mattia Liberali, Martin Baturina and Matteo Papaccioli also scored for Como. Ruben Aguilar scored Lens’ goal. Papaccioli, a Como youth-team player, completed the score in stoppage time. The eight-goal margin matches Liverpool’s 8-0 win over Besiktas in 2007 and Real Madrid’s 8-0 victory over Malmo in 2015, the previous largest margins in the Champions League. Como’s nine goals also made it the second team to reach that total in a Champions League match, after Bayern Munich beat Dinamo Zagreb 9-2 in 2024. The away-scoring milestone is specific to the competition’s modern era, which began in 1992; the European Cup record has a different scope. Como led 3-0 at halftime, then scored six more times after the break. Lens’ goal came midway through the second half, before Como added two further goals. Douvikas’...