Scorigami

SCORIGAMI: Borussia Dortmund 8, Legia Warszawa 4 is the first 8-4 game in Champions League history

Final · November 22, 2016

Champions League got a brand-new final score on November 22, 2016. Borussia Dortmund beat Legia Warszawa 8-4, and in every Champions League game since 1955, no game had ever ended that way before.

Where 8-4 sits among nearby Champions League scores. Deeper blue means a score has happened more often; the outlined cell is the new one.

The league's previous scorigami was 5-4, MSK Zilina over F91 Dudelange on July 25, 2007, 9 years and 4 months earlier. This is Champions League's 1st new final score of the 2016 season, and the grid now holds 74.5 percent of every realistic final score.

Its closest neighbors show how tight the score space had become: 9-4 had still never happened and 8-5 had still never happened. It lands on the high-scoring frontier of the grid, the sparse territory that only fills in on the rare night the points pile up.

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