Real Madrid vs AC Milan

Milan have won an away match against the reigning European Champions for the very first time, having lost three and drawn one of their four such games before tonight.

With tonight’s result following a 4-0 home defeat to Barcelona in LaLiga, Real Madrid have conceded 3+ goals in consecutive home matches for the first time since May 2009 (2-6 v Barcelona, 1-3 v Mallorca).

Carlo Ancelotti has lost consecutive home games as Real Madrid manager for the first time, while it’s the first time he’s done so with any side since May 2021 with Everton.

Real Madrid have won five of their seven home matches against Milan in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League (D1 L1), beating them 2-0 in the most recent such match in October 2010.

Milan are winless in their last three UEFA Champions League games against Real Madrid (D2 L1) since they won 3-2 in October 2009 with goals from Andrea Pirlo and a brace from Alexandre Pato.

Real Madrid have won 17 of their last 18 European matches against Italian opposition, with their only defeat in this sequence coming at home to Juventus in April 2018 in a UEFA Champions League quarter-final match.

This will be the fifth time Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti has faced his former side Milan since coaching them (2001-2009), and the first time in European competition. The previous four games all came while in charge of Napoli between 2018 and 2019, with Ancelotti only managing to beat his former side on one occasion (D2 L1): 3-2 in August 2018 in a Serie A home game.

Real Madrid are unbeaten in their last 15 home games in the UEFA Champions League (W12 D3), despite being on their longest run without a clean sheet at home in the competition (six games) since February 2013 (a run of eight).