Matchday three facts and figures

• The 40 goals scored on Tuesday represented a record for a single eight-game matchnight, with only the 44 on 1 October 1997 surpassing it. With 19 more added on Wednesday, the aggregate for matchday three of 59 goals was the second highest in UEFA Champions League history, less only than the 63 scored on matchday one in 2000/01.

• Luiz Adriano became only the second player to score five goals in a UEFA Champions League match – after Lionel Messi for FC Barcelona against Bayer 04 Leverkusen in March 2012 – in FC Shakhtar Donetsk's 7-0 win at FC BATE Borisov. He is also the first player to score four times in the first half.

• The striker's hat-trick came in 13 minutes, the third fastest in the competition. The record still belongs to Bafétimbi Gomis, who scored three in eight minutes for Olympique Lyonnais at GNK Dinamo Zagreb in December 2011.

• Shakhtar's win was the joint second highest margin of victory in the UEFA Champions League, behind only Liverpool FC's 8-0 defeat of Beşiktaş JK in November 2007. It equalled the biggest-ever away triumph, matching Olympique de Marseille's 7-0 success at MŠK Žilina in November 2010.

• With FC Bayern München simultaneously prevailing 7-1 at AS Roma, two clubs scored seven goals on a matchnight for the first time in the competition's history.

• Bayern also became the first team to score seven goals in a UEFA Champions League match twice, having beaten Sporting Clube de Portugal 7-1 at home in March 2009. Roma are the first side to concede seven goals twice, losing 7-1 at Manchester United FC in April 2007.

• Shakhtar became the first team to score six goals in the first half of a UEFA Champions League game, while Bayern are only the third to score five and, having gone 5-0 up before Shakhtar, the first away from home. Bayern had already scored five in the first half, in a 6-1 home win against LOSC Lille in November 2012. Curiously, the LOSC coach in that game was Rudi Garcia, the same man on Roma's bench on Tuesday.

• Club Atlético de Madrid became the seventh team to score five or more goals after the interval in a UEFA Champions League match as they defeated Malmö FF 5-0 after a goalless first half at the Estadio Vicente Calderón.

• PFC Ludogorets Razgrad's 1-0 win against FC Basel 1893 brought Bulgaria its first points in the UEFA Champions League, at the ninth time of asking. Ludogorets are the 115th club (out of 130 group stage participants) to record a victory in the competition.

Iker Casillas in action at Anfield©AFP/Getty Images

• Iker Casillas's appearance in Real Madrid CF's 3-0 success at Liverpool FC was his 143rd in the competition, group stage to final, moving him alongside Xavi Hernández – who did not play for FC Barcelona at home to AFC Ajax the previous evening – at the top of the all-time player rankings.

• Cristiano Ronaldo's goal at Anfield was his 70th in the UEFA Champions League, putting him just one behind Raúl González in the competition's all-time top scorer listings – and one ahead of Lionel Messi, on target 24 hours earlier for Barcelona.

• Karim Benzema's double for Madrid against Liverpool took his all-time UEFA Champions League goal tally to 40. The Frenchman is only the 11th player to reach that landmark. Didier Drogba registered his 43rd goal in Chelsea FC's 6-0 home victory over NK Maribor.

• The goalless draw between AS Monaco FC and SL Benfica was the 200th in the UEFA Champions League. AC Milan hold the record for being involved in more of those stalemates than any other club – 21. Manchester United FC are next, on 20.

Mike Hammond is the editor of the European Football Yearbook, the 2014/15 edition of which is out now.