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12-goal game in UCL spotlight
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THE first 12-goal game in 25 UEFA Champions League seasons took the spotlight from Real Madrid and Juventus advancing to the round of 16 on Tuesday.
It ended Borussia Dortmund 8, Legia Warsaw 4 — beating the UCL’s previous best set by Monaco’s 8-3 win over Deportivo La Coruna in November 2003.
The record-breaking goal in stoppage time was an own goal forced by Germany forward Marco Reus, who scored twice in his comeback match after six months sidelined by injury.
“It was a bit of a surreal game and result,” Dortmund coach Thomas Tuchel said.
Monaco lost its place in history but won Group E with a 2-1 victory over Tottenham Hotspur, which cannot now advance.
English champion Leicester City won Group G with a game to spare by beating Club Brugge of Belgium 2-1.
Real, the defending champion, won 2-1 in Cristiano Ronaldo’s return to Sporting Lisbon but still trails Dortmund in Group F ahead of their showdown match in Spain on December 7.
Juventus trailed early before beating 10-man Sevilla 3-1 to take top spot in Group H.
In Dortmund, the host fell behind to Legia after 10 minutes, but led 3-1 by the 20th when Japan’s Shinji Kagawa scored twice and Nuri Sahin benefited from a goalkeeping error.
Reus’s first goal in the 32nd made it 5-2 and set a UCL record of seven goals before half time.
The old goals record for a match was tied in the 83rd when Legia’s Nemanja Nikolic reduced the lead to 7-4, and then broken in stoppage time with an own-goal by Legia captain Jakub Rzezniczak.
Still, Dortmund and Legia fell short of the 61-year-old competition’s record. In the 1969-70 European Cup, eventual winner Feyenoord beat KR of Iceland 12-2 in a first-round game.
Dortmund is two points clear and needs a draw in Madrid to ensure seeded status in the last-16 draw.
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