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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Agora, Inc. (NASDAQ: API) (the “Company”), a pioneer and leader in real-time engagement technology, today announced its unaudited financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2024. “Recently, we launched our Conversational AI SDK in collaboration with OpenAI’s Realtime API to allow developers to bring voice-driven AI experiences to any app. We believe multimodal AI agents that can interact with human through natural voice will gain widespread adoption across many use cases such as customer support, education and wellness, and Agora is well positioned to become a key infrastructure provider for real-time conversational AI,” said Tony Zhao, founder, chairman and CEO of Agora. “To support this vision, we recently made some structural changes, aligning our organization to fully leverage the accelerating conversational AI opportunities, and operate in a faster, leaner, and more responsive fashion. These changes will help us build the next generation real-time engagement technology for the Generative AI era and strengthen our position as the leader in real-time engagement space.” Third Quarter 2024 Highlights Total revenues for the quarter were $31.6 million, a decrease of 9.8% from $35.0 million in the third quarter of 2023, which included decreased revenue from certain end-of-sale products of $2.4 million. Agora: $15.7 million for the quarter, an increase of 2.6% from $15.3 million in the third quarter of 2023. Shengwang: RMB112.9 million ($15.9 million) for the quarter, a decrease of 20.0% from RMB141.2 million ($19.7 million) in the third quarter of 2023, which included decreased revenue from certain end-of-sale products of RMB17.5 million ($2.4 million). Active Customers Agora: 1,762 as of September 30, 2024, an increase of 5.9% from 1,664 as of September 30, 2023. Shengwang: 3,641 as of September 30, 2024, a decrease of 9.7% from 4,034 as of September 30, 2023. Dollar-Based Net Retention Rate Agora: 94% for the trailing 12-month period ended September 30, 2024. Shengwang: 78% for the trailing 12-month period ended September 30, 2024. Net loss for the quarter was $24.2 million, which included expenses of $11.4 million in relation to the cancellation of certain employees’ equity awards, severance expenses of $4.8 million, and losses from equity in affiliates of $4.2 million, compared to net loss of $22.5 million in the third quarter of 2023. After excluding share-based compensation expenses, acquisition related expenses, amortization expenses of acquired intangible assets and income tax related to acquired intangible assets, non-GAAP net loss for the quarter was $10.4 million, compared to the non-GAAP net loss of $15.6 million in the third quarter of 2023. Total cash, cash equivalents, bank deposits and financial products issued by banks as of September 30, 2024 was $362.6 million. Net cash used in operating activities for the quarter was $4.6 million, compared to $3.0 million in the third quarter of 2023. Free cash flow for the quarter was negative $6.0 million, compared to negative $3.2 million in the third quarter of 2023. Third Quarter 2024 Financial Results Revenues Total revenues were $31.6 million in the third quarter of 2024, a decrease of 9.8% from $35.0 million in the same period last year. Revenues of Agora were $15.7 million in the third quarter of 2024, an increase of 2.6% from $15.3 million in the same period last year, primarily due to our business expansion and usage growth in sectors such as live shopping. Revenues of Shengwang were RMB112.9 million ($15.9 million) in the third quarter of 2024, a decrease of 20.0% from RMB141.2 million ($19.7 million) in the same period last year, primarily due to a decrease in revenues of RMB 17.5 million ($2.4 million) due to the end-of-sale of certain products and reduced usage from customers in certain sectors such as social and entertainment as a result of challenging macroeconomic and regulatory environment. Cost of Revenues Cost of revenues was $10.5 million in the third quarter of 2024, a decrease of 16.4% from $12.6 million in the same period last year, primarily due to the end-of-sale of certain products and the decrease in bandwidth usage and costs, which was offset partially by severance expenses for customer support teams of $0.3 million. Gross Profit and Gross Margin Gross profit was $21.0 million in the third quarter of 2024, a decrease of 6.1% from $22.4 million in the same period last year. Gross margin was 66.7% in the third quarter of 2024, an increase of 2.7% from 64.0% in the same period last year, mainly due to the end-of-sale of certain low-margin products, which was offset partially by higher severance expenses in the third quarter of 2024. Operating Expenses Operating expenses were $45.9 million in the third quarter of 2024, an increase of 24.3% from $36.9 million in the same period last year, primarily due to the increase in restructuring and severance expenses in the third quarter of 2024, which included share-based compensation of $11.4 million as a result of the cancellation of certain employees’ equity awards and immediate recognition of relevant remaining unrecognized compensation expenses, as well as severance expenses of $4.4 million. Research and development expenses were $29.3 million in the third quarter of 2024, an increase of 46.1% from $20.0 million in the same period last year, primarily due to restructuring and severance expenses in the third quarter of 2024, including share-based compensation of $9.0 million due to equity award cancellation and severance expenses of $3.6 million. Sales and marketing expenses were $6.9 million in the third quarter of 2024, a decrease of 11.9% from $7.8 million in the same period last year, primarily due to a decrease in personnel costs as the Company optimized its global workforce, which was offset partially by severance expenses of $0.7 million in the third quarter of 2024. General and administrative expenses were $9.7 million in the third quarter of 2024, an increase of 7.4% from $9.1 million in the same period last year, primarily due to restructuring and severance expenses in the third quarter of 2024, including share-based compensation of $2.4 million as a result of the equity award cancellation, which was offset partially by a decrease in personnel costs as the Company optimized its global workforce. Loss from Operations Loss from operations was $24.7 million in the third quarter of 2024, compared to $13.9 million in the same period last year. Interest Income Interest income was $3.9 million in the third quarter of 2024, compared to $4.9 million in the same period last year, primarily due to the decrease in the average balance of cash, cash equivalents, bank deposits and financial products issued by banks and the decrease in average interest rate realized. Losses from equity in affiliates Losses from equity in affiliates were $4.2 million in the third quarter of 2024, primarily due to an impairment loss on an investment in certain private company of $4.1 million. Net Loss Net loss was $24.2 million in the third quarter of 2024, compared to $22.5 million in the same period last year. Net Loss per American Depositary Share attributable to ordinary shareholders Net loss per American Depositary Share (“ADS”)1 attributable to ordinary shareholders was $0.26 in the third quarter of 2024, compared to $0.23 in the same period last year. 1 One ADS represents four Class A ordinary shares. Share Repurchase Program During the three months ended September 30, 2024, the Company repurchased approximately 6.8 million of its Class A ordinary shares (equivalent to approximately 1.7 million ADSs) for approximately US$3.9 million under its share repurchase program, representing 1.9% of its US$200 million share repurchase program. As of September 30, 2024, the Company had repurchased approximately 129.4 million of its Class A ordinary shares (equivalent to approximately 32.3 million ADSs) for approximately US$113.7 million under its share repurchase program, representing 57% of its US$200 million share repurchase program. As of September 30, 2024, the Company had 368.3 million ordinary shares (equivalent to approximately 92.1 million ADSs) outstanding, compared to 449.8 million ordinary shares (equivalent to approximately 112.5 million ADSs) outstanding as of January 31, 2022 before the share repurchase program commenced. The current share repurchase program will expire at the end of February 2025. Executive Leadership Update Today the Company announced that Chief Security Officer Roger Hale will be leaving the Company, effective immediately. Mr. Hale has served in this role for the past 2.5 years, during which he made significant contributions to enhancing the Company’s security, compliance, and data protection protocols. Mr. Hale will work closely with senior leadership to ensure a smooth transition of his responsibilities. Moving forward, Patrick Ferriter and Robbin Liu will assume responsibility for security and compliance, reflecting the Company’s commitment to maintaining a strong and effective security framework. Mr. Hale will continue to provide strategic advice as an advisor to the Company. “We are grateful for Roger’s dedication and expertise over the past two and a half years. His leadership has been invaluable in strengthening our security & compliance foundation,” said Tony Zhao, founder, chairman and CEO of Agora. “Security and compliance remain top priorities for Agora, and we will continue to uphold the highest standards to protect our customers and stakeholders.” Financial Outlook Based on currently available information, the Company expects total revenues for the fourth quarter of 2024 to be between $34 million and $36 million, compared to $31.6 million in the third quarter of 2024, and $33.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2023 if revenues from certain end-of-sale low-margin products were excluded. The Company also expects significant improvement in net income / (loss) in the fourth quarter. This outlook reflects the Company's current and preliminary views on the market and operational conditions, which are subject to change. Earnings Call The Company will host a conference call to discuss the financial results at 5 p.m. Pacific Time / 8 p.m. Eastern Time on November 25, 2024. Details for the conference call are as follows: Event title: Agora, Inc. 3Q 2024 Financial Results The call will be available at https://edge.media-server.com/mmc/p/wie28zvr Investors who want to hear the call should log on at least 15 minutes prior to the broadcast. Participants may register for the call with the link below. https://register.vevent.com/register/BIf58a0b6f500c4362b1a8c64f9fa4cea8 Please visit the Company’s investor relations website at https://investor.agora.io on November 25, 2024 to view the earnings release and accompanying slides prior to the conference call. Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures The Company has provided in this press release financial information that has not been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“GAAP”). The Company uses these non-GAAP financial measures internally in analyzing its financial results and believe that the use of these non-GAAP financial measures is useful to investors as an additional tool to evaluate ongoing operating results and trends and in comparing its financial results with other companies in its industry, many of which present similar non-GAAP financial measures. Besides free cash flow (as defined below), each of these non-GAAP financial measures represents the corresponding GAAP financial measure before share-based compensation expenses, acquisition related expenses, amortization expenses of acquired intangible assets, income tax related to acquired intangible assets and impairment of goodwill. The Company believes that such non-GAAP financial measures help identify underlying trends in its business that could otherwise be distorted by the effects of such share-based compensation expenses, acquisition related expenses, amortization expenses of acquired intangible assets, income tax related to acquired intangible assets and impairment of goodwill that it includes in its cost of revenues, total operating expenses and net income (loss). The Company believes that all such non-GAAP financial measures also provide useful information about its operating results, enhance the overall understanding of its past performance and future prospects and allow for greater visibility with respect to key metrics used by its management in its financial and operational decision-making. Non-GAAP financial measures are not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for comparable GAAP financial measures and should be read only in conjunction with the Company’s consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP. A reconciliation of its historical non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures has been provided in the tables captioned “Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Measures” included at the end of this press release, and investors are encouraged to review the reconciliation. Definitions of the Company’s non-GAAP financial measures included in this press release are presented below. Non-GAAP Net Income (Loss) Non-GAAP net income (loss) is defined as net income (loss) adjusted to exclude share-based compensation expenses, acquisition related expenses, amortization expenses of acquired intangible assets, income tax related to acquired intangible assets and impairment of goodwill. Free Cash Flow Free cash flow is defined as net cash provided by operating activities less purchases of property and equipment (excluding the acquisition of land use right and the payment for the headquarters project). The Company considers free cash flow to be a liquidity measure that provides useful information to management and investors regarding net cash provided by operating activities and cash used for investments in property and equipment required to maintain and grow the business. Operating Metrics The Company also uses other operating metrics included in this press release and defined below to assess the performance of its business. Active Customers An active customer at the end of any period is defined as an organization or individual developer from which the Company generated more than $100 of revenue during the preceding 12 months. Customers are counted based on unique customer account identifiers. Generally, one software application uses the same customer account identifier throughout its life cycle while one account may be used for multiple applications. Dollar-Based Net Retention Rate Dollar-Based Net Retention Rate is calculated for a trailing 12-month period by first identifying all customers in the prior 12-month period, and then calculating the quotient from dividing the revenue generated from such customers in the trailing 12-month period by the revenue generated from the same group of customers in the prior 12-month period. As the vast majority of revenue generated from Agora’s customers is denominated in U.S. dollars, while the vast majority of revenue generated from Shengwang’s customers is denominated in Renminbi, Dollar-Based Net Retention Rate is calculated in U.S. dollars for Agora and in Renminbi for Shengwang, which has substantially removed the impact of foreign currency translations. Shengwang excluded the revenues from certain end-of-sale products, Easemob’s CEC business and K12 academic tutoring sector. The Company believes Dollar-Based Net Retention Rate facilitates operating performance comparisons on a period-to-period basis. Safe Harbor Statements This press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than statements of historical or current fact included in this press release are forward-looking statements, including but not limited to statements regarding the Company’s financial outlook, beliefs and expectations. Forward-looking statements include statements containing words such as “expect,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “project,” “will” and similar expressions intended to identify forward-looking statements. Among other things, the Financial Outlook in this announcement contain forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on the Company’s current expectations and involve risks and uncertainties. The Company’s actual results and the timing of events could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements as a result of these risks and uncertainties, which include, without limitation, risks related to the growth of the RTE-PaaS market; the Company’s ability to manage its growth and expand its operations; the continued impact of COVID-19 on global markets and the Company’s business, operations and customers; the Company’s ability to attract new developers and convert them into customers; the Company’s ability to retain existing customers and expand their usage of its platform and products; the Company’s ability to drive popularity of existing use cases and enable new use cases, including through quality enhancements and introduction of new products, features and functionalities; the Company’s fluctuating operating results; competition; the effect of broader technological and market trends on the Company’s business and prospects; general economic conditions and their impact on customer and end-user demand; and other risks and uncertainties included elsewhere in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including, without limitation, the final prospectus related to the IPO filed with the SEC on June 26, 2020. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement, and the Company undertakes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof. About Agora, Inc. Agora, Inc. is the Cayman Islands holding company of two independent divisions, under Agora brand and Shengwang brand, respectively, whose businesses are conducted through separate entities. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Agora is a pioneer and global leader in Real-Time Engagement Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), providing developers with simple, flexible, and powerful application programming interfaces, or APIs, to embed real-time voice, video, interactive live-streaming, chat, whiteboard, and artificial intelligence capabilities into their applications. Headquartered in Shanghai, China, Shengwang is a pioneer and leading Real-Time Engagement PaaS provider in the China market. For more information on Agora, please visit: www.agora.io For more information on Shengwang, please visit: www.shengwang.cn Agora, Inc. Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets (Unaudited, in US$ thousands) Agora, Inc. Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss (Unaudited, in US$ thousands, except share and per ADS amounts) Agora, Inc. Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (Unaudited, in US$ thousands) Agora, Inc. Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Measures (Unaudited, in US$ thousands, except share and per ADS amounts) Investor Contact: investor@agora.io Media Contact: press@agora.io
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Bank of Montreal Can now owns 574,068 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $16,803,000 after acquiring an additional 559,720 shares during the period. Point72 Asset Management L.P. lifted its stake in BankUnited by 741.7% in the 2nd quarter. Point72 Asset Management L.P. now owns 397,271 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $11,628,000 after purchasing an additional 350,071 shares in the last quarter. Federated Hermes Inc. boosted its holdings in BankUnited by 3,658.4% in the 2nd quarter. Federated Hermes Inc. now owns 325,812 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $9,537,000 after purchasing an additional 317,143 shares during the period. Finally, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP grew its position in shares of BankUnited by 7.4% during the 2nd quarter. 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The shares were sold at an average price of $41.18, for a total transaction of $102,950.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider now owns 34,687 shares in the company, valued at $1,428,410.66. The trade was a 6.72 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here . Insiders own 1.19% of the company’s stock. BankUnited Price Performance BankUnited ( NYSE:BKU – Get Free Report ) last released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, October 22nd. The financial services provider reported $0.81 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.74 by $0.07. BankUnited had a return on equity of 8.09% and a net margin of 9.06%. The firm had revenue of $515.24 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $258.65 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $0.63 earnings per share. Research analysts anticipate that BankUnited, Inc. will post 2.89 earnings per share for the current year. 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Wells Fargo & Company upgraded shares of BankUnited from an “equal weight” rating to an “overweight” rating and lifted their target price for the company from $38.00 to $48.00 in a research report on Wednesday, November 13th. Finally, Citigroup decreased their price target on shares of BankUnited from $42.00 to $39.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a report on Wednesday, September 11th. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, seven have issued a hold rating and two have assigned a buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $38.70. Check Out Our Latest Report on BKU BankUnited Company Profile ( Free Report ) BankUnited, Inc operates as the bank holding company for BankUnited, a national banking association that provides a range of banking services in the United States. 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NoneRobert Lewandowski has become just the third player to score 100 goals in the European Cup/ Champions League , after Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi . It is, clearly, a hugely impressive achievement and one that puts the Pole in the most esteemed company imaginable. Lewandowski scored his first goal in the competition as a 23-year-old in October 2011, for Borussia Dortmund against Olympiacos, and, now aged 36, reached 101 with his brace against Brest on Tuesday for Barcelona. Advertisement Which club has the former Bayern Munich striker scored against the most often in the Champions League? How many of his goals have come in the knockout phase? Who has provided the most assists for him? And has he got to three figures in fewer games than it took either Ronaldo or Messi? The Athletic answers all those questions and more in a detailed breakdown of Lewandowski’s century of Champions League goals. Firstly, here are the 10 top goalscorers in the competition’s history: Of these men, only Alfredo Di Stefano (0.84) has a better goals-per-game rate than Lewandowski’s 0.81. This means the Polish striker has the best scoring rate in the competition among the eight players to have scored 50 times or more in it. Lewandowski has played for three clubs in the Champions League, first appearing in the competition for Dortmund in September 2011. He debuted in it for Bayern in September 2014 and for Barcelona in September 2022. The only time he has won the competition was with Bayern, in 2019-20. He lost in the final as a Dortmund player, to Bayern, in 2012-13. Here is the number of goals Lewandowski has scored in the Champions League for each of his clubs. He is one of just two players in the history of the European Cup/Champions League — a tournament which started in 1955 and was rebranded with the latter name in 1992 — to score 10+ goals in it for three different clubs. The other is Ronaldo, who got 21 for Manchester United , 105 in a Real Madrid shirt and 14 with Juventus . Only three players have scored more goals in the competition for a single club than the 69 Lewandowski registered for Bayern. He has scored against 37 teams in the competition, with those sides coming from 17 countries. Four of Lewandowski’s seven goals against Crvena Zvezda (Red Star Belgrade) came in one game in November 2019 for Bayern; a feat he also achieved during his time at Dortmund when, at the age of 24, he stunned Jose Mourinho’s Madrid in a semi-final first leg in April 2013. As a result, he is one of just five players to score four goals in two different games in the European Cup/Champions League. The other four are: Di Stefano, for Madrid against both Sevilla in January 1958 and Wiener Sport-Club in March 1959, Ferenc Puskas, also for Madrid against both Eintracht Frankfurt in May 1960 and Feyenoord in September 1965, Marco van Basten, for Milan against both Levski Sofia in October 1988 and IFK Gothenburg in November 1992 and Messi, for Barcelona against both Arsenal in April 2010 and Bayer Leverkusen in March 2012 (a night when he scored five times). Advertisement The six clubs Lewandowski has played in the Champions League but never scored against are Sevilla, Liverpool, CSKA Moscow (all two games) and Monaco, Celtic and Lokomotiv Moscow (all one game). The most Champions League goals he has scored in a season is the 15 he netted in 2019-20 — one in which Bayern won the treble, as they also took the Bundesliga title and the DFB-Pokal, Germany’s equivalent of the FA Cup in England. He was, unsurprisingly, the top scorer in the competition that season — that is the only time he has achieved this honour. Lewandowski scored in every Champions League game he played in during that campaign, except the final. Only Ronaldo (17 in 2013-14 and 16 in 2015-16) has scored more than 15 times in a season in the history of the European Cup/Champions League, though Bayern had two fewer fixtures than was usual for the competition’s winners in 2019-20 because the pandemic led to the quarter-finals and semi-finals being reduced to single-leg ties. Here is the full breakdown of Lewandowski’s goals by season: As you can see, he has scored 13 goals or more in a season twice. Ronaldo is the only other player in the European Cup/Champions League to have done it more than once. Here is every instance of a player scoring 13 goals or more in a season in the competition. Lewandowski’s 13 goals in 2021-22, when Bayern were knocked out in the quarter-finals, is the only instance on the above list of a player representing a team who didn’t reach at least the semis. He has scored in 14 consecutive Champions League campaigns, which is comfortably the longest ongoing scoring run by season in the competition. The next graphic shows every player to have netted in at least each of the competition’s past five seasons: It is worth comparing Lewandowski’s record in the competition with those of the two other players to reach the century mark — Ronaldo and Messi. Firstly, this is how their respective roads to 100 Champions League goals measure up. (If you click/press/hover over the lines, each player’s total games and goals at that point will appear.) The Poland captain has reached three figures in just two more games than it took Messi (Lewandowski: 125; Messi: 123) and he has got there an impressive 12 matches faster than Ronaldo did (137). The Portuguese superstar, remarkably, took 27 games to score his first goal in the competition. Ronaldo scored his 100th Champions League goal, at the age of 32, in April 2017 for Madrid against Bayern and Messi reached his century, aged 30, in March of the following year for Barcelona against Chelsea . Lewandowski, who has reached three figures in the competition at 36, scored for Bayern in that match seven and a half years ago where Ronaldo got to 100. Advertisement As mentioned at the start of the article, Lewandowski’s goals-per-game figure in the Champions League is 0.81 — which is marginally superior to both Ronaldo’s (0.77) and Messi’s (0.79). He is the only one of the three still playing in the competition, though, so his rate of scoring will continue to fluctuate while he does so. Lewandowski is also the only one of the trio to have scored more Champions League goals after turning 30 than before reaching that age. Lewandowski’s 56 goals in his thirties have come in just 53 games, while Ronaldo’s 68 were scored in 74 matches. Messi’s 35 goals after turning 30 came in 48 appearances. Ronaldo scored his last Champions League goal in November 2021 and Messi’s was the following October. This is how Lewandowski’s 101 goals break down by round of the competition. Unlike Ronaldo (four goals) and Messi (two), he has never scored in the Champions League final (in his two appearances): Four of his seven semi-final goals came in the space of 58 minutes against Madrid at Dortmund’s Signal Iduna Park in 2013. Overall, 32 of his 101 have come in the knockout rounds. Breaking his Champions League games down into 15-minute segments, the period where Lewandowski has scored most often is between the 76th and 90th minutes. Though, as you can see from the graphic below, the timing of his goals in the competition is very evenly spread across the matches. The earliest goal came after four minutes for Dortmund against Marseille in the group stage in December 2013 and the latest is the 92nd-minute goal he scored for Barcelona on Tuesday against Brest. Next, we have a breakdown of Lewandowski’s goals by body part. The one credited to his back was scored for Bayern against Manchester City in November 2014, when he stooped for a header and connected with the ball just below his neck before it bounced into the net. None of his 17 Champions League goals for Dortmund were headers but his first goal in the competition after moving to Bayern was one. Since leaving Dortmund, he’s used his head to score 19 of his 84 Champions League goals. Of the 101 goals, 97 of them have come from inside the box — a figure which includes 17 penalties. He has only missed from the spot once in the competition, for Bayern against Benfica in November 2021 when Odysseas Vlachodimos guessed the right way to save after Lewandowski’s stuttering run-up. He got a hat-trick in that match, so that penalty save denied him the outright record in the European Cup/Champions League of scoring four goals or more in a single game the most times (he, Di Stefano, Puskas, Van Basten and Messi have all done it twice). GO DEEPER Robert Lewandowski: My Game In My Words Lewandowski has scored one free kick in the Champions League — a curling effort against Atletico Madrid for Bayern in December 2016 that proved the only goal of the game. Here are the 39 players to have provided an assist for Lewandowski in the competition. Thomas Muller (a team-mate at Bayern) and Mario Gotze (a colleague at both Dortmund and Bayern) are the only men to have set him up more than three times. Goalkeeper Manuel Neuer’s assist was a punt up the pitch which Lewandowski capitalised on to complete that hat-trick against Benfica in November 2021. That Benfica match saw the fourth of Lewandowski’s six hat-tricks in the Champions League. Only Ronaldo and Messi (both eight) have scored more of them in the competition. But Lewandowski is the only player to score a hat-trick in the Champions League with three different clubs. The Barcelona forward is now 28 goals behind second-placed Messi on the all-time list of top scorers in the competition. Having turned 36 in August it is unlikely, but by no means impossible, that he will catch the Argentinian. Lewandowski will be helped by the fact the new, expanded format of the Champions League provides more games each season for him to score in. It is highly improbable, however, that he will surpass Ronaldo’s mammoth total of 140. GO DEEPER Robert Lewandowski interview: 'Noisy' Barcelona, 'fearless' youngsters and making an impact in Messi-Ronaldo era Who, if anyone, will be the next player to join the competition’s 100 Club? Muller (54 goals), Kylian Mbappe (49), Erling Haaland (46) and Mohamed Salah (45) are the only other men playing in the Champions League this season to have scored more than 40 times in it. Muller, who is 35, and the 32-year-old Salah are already at ages that mean they probably won’t even get close to three figures, but Madrid’s Mbappe (25) and Manchester City’s Haaland (24) will be confident of getting there — and maybe even of eventually overhauling Ronaldo. If they do get to 100 Champions League goals, they will be in very good, and highly exclusive, company. (Top photo: Javier Borrego/Europa Press via Getty Images)Canada is already examining tariffs on certain US items following Trump’s tariff threat
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