Champions League Fantasy Football: Top performers on Matchday 8

Ousmane Dembélé and Morgan Rogers were the joint-highest points scorers in the final round of league phase fixtures while Lautaro Martínez, Achraf Hakimi, Ramy Bensebaini, Anatoliy Trubin and Thibaut Courtois accumulated the biggest totals in their respective positions.

UEFA.com looks at the best-performing Matchday 8 players on #UCLfantasy, presented by Playstation.

GOALKEEPERS

Anatoliy Trubin (€4.5m) shut out Juventus in Benfica's 2-0 victory in Turin, and his total of seven points was matched by Thibaut Courtois (€5.7m), who made five saves in Real Madrid's 3-0 win at Brest.

A seventh league phase clean sheet for Inter and Yann Sommer (€5.5m) led to the Swiss international's fourth six-point score this season. Sommer has now conceded just one goal across eight Champions League games in 2024/25.

The fourth goalkeeper to shut out the opposition on Matchday 8 was Leverkusen's Matěj Kovář (€4.3m), who has now played in three of the German champions' last four European fixtures, recording three clean sheets and 19 Fantasy points.

DEFENDERS

Three defenders – all full-backs – ended Matchday 8 with a double-figure Fantasy score. Achraf Hakimi (€5.5m) is owned by just over a quarter of managers, who were rewarded with an 11-point return in Paris Saint-Germain's 4-1 win at Stuttgart. Hakimi gained an assist and eight ball recoveries before being substituted prior to Stuttgart's consolation goal, ensuring the Moroccan retained his four-point clean sheet bonus.

Dortmund defender Ramy Bensebaini (€4.6m) also came away with 11 points after his goal and ten ball recoveries helped seal a 3-1 win at home to Shakhtar Donetsk. It could have been more, a late goal for the visitors denying Dortmund and Bensebaini a clean sheet.

Lucas Vázquez (€4.4m) completed the trio of defenders with ten points or more after he too registered an attacking return for Real Madrid, along with a clean sheet and four ball recoveries. Fantasy managers who invested in Leverkusen's full-backs Alejandro Grimaldo (€5.8m) and Jeremie Frimpong (€5.6m) were rewarded as both picked up an assist and nine points in a 2-0 victory against Sparta Praha.

MIDFIELDERS

One of the most popular Fantasy selections throughout the league phase, Lamine Yamal (€7.4m) scored Barcelona's first goal and was named Player of the Match in a 2-2 draw with Atalanta in which the 17-year-old picked up his first double-figure points haul of the season.

However, Yamal's total of 13 was comfortably exceeded by a number of other players in his position, not least the two midfielders who scored hat-tricks on Matchday 8. That was Aston Villa's Morgan Rogers (€5.0m) and Ousmane Dembélé (€8.4m) of Paris, no other player managing to equal their 20-point scores across the final round of league phase matches.

The two top-performing players in any position coming into Matchday 8 continued to impress. Raphinha (€7.7m) recorded two more assists and eight points against Atalanta, boosting his overall Fantasy score to an unmatched 84 points, while a goal and fifth Player of the Match award for Florian Wirtz (€7.9m) gave him another 13 points.

FORWARDS

The third player to score a hat-trick was a forward, Lautaro Martínez (€9.4m) getting all three goals in Inter's 3-0 win over Monaco. That earned him the Player of the Match award and 17 points – more than any other player in his position.

Another in-form striker is Benfica's Vangelis Pavlidis (€6.5m), who followed his hat-trick and 14 points against Barcelona on Matchday 7 with a goal, assist, a second Player of the Match award and 13 points against Juventus. Atlético de Madrid's Antoine Griezmann (€9.1m) exceeded that score, recording a double against Salzburg and earning 14 points after also being named Player of the Match.

Serhou Guirassy (€8.0m) maintained his record of gaining at least one attacking return in all of Dortmund's European games this season. His two goals against Shakhtar on Matchday 8 took him level with Robert Lewandowski as the top scorer in the 2024/25 Champions League on nine overall.