Thanks to their comfortable victory over the boys from Bergamo last night, Les Parisiens have now won 11 of their last 13 UEFA Champions League matches, which is as many as they had managed in their previous 27 European outings.
Last year's UCL winners also registered their biggest Matchday 1 win in the competition since the 2017–2018 edition, when they thrashed Celtic FC 5-0.
In addition, the capital club's men's team has scored at least once in each of the 30 home games that it has played in the Champions League group stage / league phase since drawing 0-0 with Real Madrid CF in 2015.
Meanwhile, Les Rouge et Bleu have now netted six goals from outside the penalty area across all competitions this season, which is the highest such total of any team in Europe's top five leagues.
By bagging the game's opener in just the third minute, Marquinhos racked up his 10th UEFA Champions League goal – all of them for Paris – exactly 12 years after scoring his first in the competition, which is the highest non-penalty tally of any defender in the UCL during this period. Incidentally, the Brazilian had also got himself on the scoresheet in the capital club's only previous meeting with Atalanta (a 2-1 quarter-final win for Les Rouge et Bleu in Lisbon on 12th August 2020).
Clocking in at two minutes and 13 seconds, our skipper's finish last night was also Paris Saint-Germain's quickest goal in the competition since Kylian Mbappé's strike after one minute and 11 seconds against Club Brugge KV in December 2021.
It wasn't just Les Parisiens' captain who scored his first goal of the season yesterday, though, as Nuno Mendes did likewise to bring his total number of UCL goals scored since the start of last season up to five – which is more than any other defender has managed in the same period – while Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, who was named as UEFA's Player of the Match, also opened his 2025–2026 account for Paris last night.
Meanwhile, with Gonçalo Ramos scoring his very first UCL goal in last night's clash with La Dea, there must be something about Italy that suits the Portugal international given that he also netted in the UEFA Super Cup in Udine after coming off the bench. Ramos now boasts 16 goals as a substitute for Paris Saint-Germain, thereby pulling level with Mbappé's record as the team's most effective supersub in this respect across all competitions.
At the other end of the pitch, both Lucas Chevalier and Illia Zabarnyi made their UCL debut as Paris players yesterday, with the former also earning his first clean sheet for the capital club in the competition.
As for Bradley Barcola, the Frenchman's assist for Mendes was his 30th for Paris Saint-Germain across all competitions and his 19th in 2025 alone, a year in which he has provided the final pass for his team's goals more often than any other player in Europe's top five leagues.
