Como beat RC Lens 9-1 in Champions League league phase
Italian side Como won 9-1 away at RC Lens on 4 November 2026, equalling the Champions League record margin of victory.
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Como, the Italian Serie A club, won 9-1 away at RC Lens in a Champions League league-phase match on 4 November 2026. The result matched the competition's biggest winning margin and made Como only the second team to score nine goals in a single Champions League game, after Bayern Munich's 9-2 win over Dinamo Zagreb in 2024.
Anastasios Douvikas scored a hat trick, Nico Paz provided two assists and Matteo Papaccioli added the final goal. Como had already beaten RB Leipzig and Manchester United 4-1 at home earlier in the campaign, and the Lens match confirmed them as one of the surprise sides of the tournament.
For Lens, the northern French club, it was a third straight defeat in the competition and a record Champions League loss for a French club. Coach Yannick Cahuzac said the overriding feeling was humiliation. The heavy defeat came only days before Lens faced Marseille in Ligue 1, which raised questions about how the squad would respond.
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