Whether it's down to the rejigged Champions League seeding or some sort of spell cast upon the competition, this week’s set of fixtures produced some extraordinary results and moments. Matchday five is so often crucial in the four team groups, with clubs wanting to avoid the pressure of a crucial final group game.Football doesn’t get much better than the action from Tuesday and Wednesday, so here’s a handy recap of the best bits.

Record-breaker in Dortmund

Borussia Dortmund against Legia Warsaw was not the most appetising of games on paper. A comfortable victory for Thomas Tuchel’s men was on the cards. It was comfortable, eventually, but an early goal from the visitors turned a routine group game into a record-breaking 12 goal thriller.

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With seven goals scored in the first half, there was an inevitability that this would be one of the most extraordinary games in living memory.

From there on in, it did not disappoint. Eventually finishing 8-4 to Dortmund, with a hat-trick for the returning Marco Reus to maintain Dortmund’s position sitting pretty atop of Group F.

The 12 goals is the most scored in a single Champions League game, Dortmund's eight are the most scored by any one team in a Champions League game, and Legia's four are the most scored by a losing team in the Champions League. Quite a game!

Questionable priorities

Having spent years fighting to get back into Europe’s premier cup competition, Tottenham Hotspur fell at the earliest hurdle. Given a group without any of the biggest names, Spurs were still in a challenging situation in the most even group in the competition. Without a nominal walkover member of the group, Spurs struggled.

An abject defensive display against Monaco cost Mauricio Pochettino’s team their Champions League status and the Spurs manager is left with plenty of questions to answer about his prioritising of the Premier League. Resting players for a must-win Champions League game has not gone down well and makes you wonder if clubs only see the Champions League as a money maker, rather than a competition to actually win.

Oh, Carlo

Carlo Ancelotti has already broken some unwanted records at Bayern Munich. One of which is that he has already lost three games, a milestone that Pep Guardiola only reached once he'd already won his first Bundesliga title.

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Without intensity in possession and all at sea defensively, Bayern were simply outplayed by Rostov as they fell to a 3-2 defeat that guarantees they now cannot win their group.

Defeat to Dortmund last weekend meant this was a massive game for Ancelotti, he is already under pressure thanks to Bayern's recent results and their position in the league, and defeat to European minnows does nothing to help.

Stepping into the shoes of Guardiola was always going to be an unenviable challenge and the Italian is currently failing to achieve even the bare minimum for Bayern.

Arsenal flounder

November has been yet another troubled month for Arsenal. Poor performances throughout have seen yet more grumpy Gunners after a lacklustre display saw them fortunate to finish with a draw against PSG.

Relying on Ludogorets to get a result against the Ligue 1 champions is not where Arsenal want to be – obviously – meaning another year in the second group spot is likely.

Istanbul comebacks

Just like Liverpool in 2005, Besiktas pulled off a comeback from 3-0 to draw 3-3 with Benfica in Istanbul on Tuesday night.

The result keeps Besiktas in realistic contention for a place in the last 16 despite the Turkish club only winning one of their five group games so far.

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