Dinamo Zagreb vs Monaco

Monaco avoided defeat from 2+ goals down in a UEFA Champions League match for the first time since May 2004 (2-2 v Chelsea), having lost 15 consecutive such games before tonight.

Having won their first four UEFA Champions League games in which they led by 2+ goals, Dinamo Zagreb have now failed to win both of their last two (also 3-3 vs Shakhtar Donetsk in November 2019).

Dinamo Zagreb’s Petar Sucic became the eighth Croatian player to score on his UEFA Champions League debut, and at 20 years and 343 days the youngest of those to do so.

Dinamo Zagreb and Monaco have never previously faced before, while the Croatian club are winless in their last 12 meetings with French league opponents (D2 L10) in European competition, losing each of their last six in a row by an aggregate score of 19-1.

Monaco have never previously faced a Croatian side in any European competition before; French league clubs have won seven of their eight previous UEFA Champions League matches against Croatian opponents (D1) – all of which have been versus Dinamo Zagreb.

Dinamo Zagreb became the first team in UEFA Champions League history to concede nine goals in a game in their 9-2 defeat to Bayern Munich on MD1. Only one team has ever conceded 10+ goals in their first two games in a Champions League campaign – Celtic in 2016-17 (10).

Monaco have only won one of their last 11 UEFA Champions League away games (D4 L6), and are winless in their last seven (D3 L4) since a 3-2 win at Borussia Dortmund in April 2017.

Dinamo Zagreb have now shipped 14 goals in their last two major European games, losing 5-1 to PAOK Salonika in March in the Conference League and 9-2 to Bayern Munich on MD1 of this season’s UEFA Champions League. The last side to ship 5+ goals in three consecutive major European games were Luxembourg’s Avenir Beggen between 1992 and 1995.