UEFA Champions League 2019-20: 5 interesting stats from Matchday 6

#2 Atalanta become the first team to qualify for the knockout round after losing their first three games

Atalanta

The only tournament debutants in this season's Champions League, Atalanta, created history on Matchday 6 by becoming the first team to qualify for the knockout round of the competition after losing their first three games.

1 - #Atalanta are the first team in Champions League history to progress to the knockout stage having lost the first three round of the group. Exploit. pic.twitter.com/DbstyQVvhg

— OptaPaolo (@OptaPaolo) December 11, 2019

After scoring just twice and conceding 11 goals in defeats to Dinamo Zagreb (4-0 away), Shakhtar Donetsk (1-2 home) and Manchester City (5-1 away) in their first three games, Atalanta conceded just one goal in their next three.

A 1-1 home draw with group-winners Manchester City followed by a 2-0 home win over Dinamo Zagreb and a 3-0 win at Shakhtar Donetsk confirmed Champions League action beyond Christmas for the competition debutants.

#3 Ansu Fati becomes the youngest scorer in a Champions League game

Ansu Fati

Barcelona's teenage sensation Ansu Fati created Champions League history on Matchday 6. His late winner at Internazionale on Matchday 6 made the 17 year, 40 day old winger the youngest-ever scorer in the competition (group-stage to final).

17y 40d - Ansu Fati has become the youngest goalscorer in Champions League history, scoring for Barcelona tonight aged just 17 years and 40 days. Whippersnapper. #UCL #INTBAR pic.twitter.com/z8TRAsr9Z9

— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) December 10, 2019

In the process, Fati broke the 22-year record held by Ghana's Peter Ofori-Quaye, who at 17 years 195 days had become the youngest scorer in the Champions League. Ofori-Quaye had scored in Olympiacos's 5-1 home win over Rosenborg in a group-stage game in the 1997-98 edition of the competition.

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