Atletico Madrid vs Real Madrid

Real Madrid have won a penalty shootout in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League for a fourth time – now the outright most of any side in Europe’s premier competition.

Conor Gallagher scored the earliest ever goal by an English player in a UEFA Champions League game (27 seconds), while it was also the earliest Atlético de Madrid have ever scored in the competition.

This is the fifth time that Atlético have been knocked out of the UEFA Champions League knockout stages (incl. finals) by Real Madrid; only Bayern Munich (7 v Real Madrid) have been eliminated by a single opponent more often in the competition’s knockout rounds.

Atlético Madrid have lost the first leg in six previous UEFA Champions League ties and have come back to progress from three of them, with all three instances coming when they’ve lost the first leg away (2014-15 last 16 vs Bayer Leverkusen, 2015-16  quarter-final vs Barcelona and 2023-24 last 16 vs Inter).

Real Madrid have progressed from 21 of their last 22 UEFA Champions League ties when they’ve won the first leg, with the exception against Ajax in the last 16 in 2018-19. Under Carlo Ancelotti, they’ve progressed from nine out of nine.

Atlético Madrid have only lost one of their last seven home games against Real Madrid in all competitions (W3 D3). In home games against them in cup competitions, meanwhile, Atlético are unbeaten in the last five, winning four of them (D1).

Since winning eight consecutive away games against Atlético Madrid between January 2008 and February 2014, Real Madrid have only won three of their last 17 away matches against them across all competitions (W7 D7).

Atlético Madrid haven’t lost a UEFA Champions League knockout match at one of their home stadiums (Vicente Calderón and Metropolitano Stadium) since a 3-2 defeat to Ajax in March 1997 and are unbeaten in 18 since (W11 D7).