Comment Juanfran and Filipe Luis dazzled against Bayern Munich

Juanfran becomes Atletico's most capped Champions League player

It was a record-breaking night for Juanfran on Wednesday as he listened to the Champions League anthem in an Atletico Madrid shirt for the 36th time, making him the club's all-time record appearance holder in the competition ahead of Raul Garcia.

Yet any suggestion of the 31-year-old right-back slowing down was dismissed with another excellent performance in the tournament where the lights shine the brightest.

It was a display which, along with that of the equally impressive Filipe Luis, showed why Los Rojiblancos have the best full-back partnership in world football right now.

Diego Simeone's right-back and left-back put on a masterclass on Wednesday evening, which the Estadio Vicente Calderon drank up with gusto as they watched their side send Bayern Munich packing with a 1-0 defeat.

Defensively, the pair were impenetrable, with the in-form Franck Ribery jostled out of the game by Juanfran, while Bayern threw Thomas Mueller, Philipp Lahm, Joshua Kimmich and Arjen Robben at his Brazilian colleague, but none of them enjoyed any success on the Germans' right-hand side.

The most impressive aspect of the duo's performance, however, was that they were able to neutralise one of the most frightening attacks in world football at the same time as they contributed to Los Colchoneros' attacking strategy.

With just seven minutes of normal time remaining, Filipe Luis was not camped outside his own penalty area forming part of a human parked bus, but he was instead inside the German box winning his side a penalty - which Antoine Griezmann would ultimately miss.

Only 38.89% of the Atletico No. 3's touches were made inside his own third on Wednesday night, with 29.17% made in the middle and 31.94% made in the third closest to Manuel Neuer's goal.

Even more impressive were Juanfran's numbers, with the record-breaker actually coming into contact with the ball more times in the Bayern third of the pitch than in his own - 32.76% versus 29.31%.

This is nothing new, as the pair have been Diego Simeone's de-facto wingers for the past two seasons, ever since Filipe Luis returned from his unhappy spell at Chelsea.

Given their defensive contributions to the team that boasted the best defence in Europe's top five leagues last season - with just 18 goals conceded - and given the way the help out in attack, there is no better full-back duo at this moment in time.

The only other team that could even claim to challenge Los Rojiblancos for that honour was the one facing them on Wednesday evening, but the fact that Lahm and David Alaba haven't been able to achieve more assists, dribbles, interceptions or tackles than their Madrid counterparts in per-90-minutes numbers in either of the past two seasons suggests they still have some way to go.

Sergi Roberto's impressive start to life as Dani Alves' replacement at Barcelona means that he and Jordi Alba could also enter the conversation in the near future, as could Dani Carvajal and Marcelo if the Real Madrid right-back maintains his current upwards trajectory, but for now there is little doubt that Juanfran and Filipe Luis are the best full-back one-two punch in world football.