The most interesting and beautiful club football tournament is back. Matchday 1 was as interesting as we expected. Barcelona started the season with beautiful goals, Lionel Messi netted a hat-trick. Inter celebrated his come back to Europe with a victory against Tottenham. And Liverpool beat Paris Saint-Germain at Anfield.

Here are the most interesting facts about Champions League 2018/19 Matchday 1.

Liverpool have won their opening six competitive matches of a season for the first time since 1961-62.

No player has been involved in more goals than Roberto Firmino 🇧🇷 in the Champions League since 2017/18 (18 – 11 goals, 7 assists).

Kylian Mbappe has scored in his third Champions League season – he is only one of nine players to have scored in 3+ seasons aged under 21

Daniel Sturridge has been directly involved in a goal in each of his last four Champions League appearances for Liverpool (2 goals, 2 assists).

Since the start of last season, Liverpool have scored 43 Champions League goals; 10 more than any other team in the competition in this period.

Christian Pulisic is only the second Borussia player to score a Champions League goal on their birthday, joining Stefan Reuter, who did so in 1996.

Iker Casillas will become the first player in the Champions League history to play in 20 different seasons.

Christian Eriksen has scored three goals in his last five Champions League appearances, one more than he netted in his previous 24 in the competition (2).

Lionel Messi has scored more hat-tricks than any other player in Champions League/European Cup history.

Lionel Messi has now scored as many Champions League goals as PSV

Lionel Messi has scored eight direct free-kicks in 2018 – the most he has netted in a calendar year.

Lionel Messi is the second player in the Champions League history to score in 14 consecutive seasons, after Raul Gonzalez.

Champions League MatchDay 1: RESULTS