Time: 5:55pm
Date: Tuesday 1st October
Santiago Bernabeu
COACH:
Zinedine Zidane
13
Thibaut Courtois
4
Sergio Ramos
14
Casemiro
5
Raphael Varane
8
Toni Kroos
9
Karim Benzema
2
Dani Carvajal
12
Marcelo
11
Gareth Bale
25
Vinicius De Oliveira Junior
17
Lucas Vazquez.
COACH:
Philippe Clement
88
Simon Mignolet
20
Hans Vanaken
25
Ruud Vormer
77
Clinton Mata
17
Simon Deli
14
David Okereke
26
Mats Rits
44
Brandon Mechele
42
Dennis Emmanuel Bonaventure
2
Eduard Sobol
11
Krepin Diatta.
Veritable Madrid, who have lost three of their last four UEFA Champions League games, welcome Club Brugge to the Santiago Bernabéu hoping to regroup from a considerable matchday one setback.
• The Spanish side has lost three of their last four matches in the test – including the last two at home – and now face a Club Brugge side who are unbeaten in their last five social affair coordinates and, including qualifying, nine UEFA Champions League games.
Past social occasions
• Club Brugge demonstrated to be the best in the sides' simply past difficulties, in the 1976/77 European Champion Clubs' Cup second round. After a goalless first leg in Spain, a match that was played in Malaga, the Belgian side experienced appreciation to a 2-0 home accomplishment.
Certifiable Madrid
• Madrid was beaten 3-0 at Paris Saint-Germain on matchday one, and have lost three of their last four UEFA Champions League matches – yielding at any rate three destinations in all of those thrashings.
• The Spanish side lost 3-0 at home to CSKA Moskva in their prop up home social affair game, on matchday six last season. That was their heaviest home obliteration in Europe, an edge that was ascended to by a 4-1 disaster against Ajax at the Bernabéu in the round of 16-second leg.
• Last season Madrid finished first in their general vicinity before Roma, Viktoria Plzeň and CSKA Moskva, getting 12 from their six matches yet losing the two games against CSKA.
• A gathering by then taught by Santiago Solari won 2-1 at Ajax in the round of 16 first leg yet bowed out 5-3 on aggregate after that considerable home obliteration.
• Last season was the first since 2009/10 that Madrid had to fail to touch base at the semi-finals or better. This is the 13-time champions' 50th European Cup fight, more than some opposite side.
• Madrid has still lost only eight of their last 42 European matches, home and away, winning 27.
• The thrashings against CSKA and Ajax made it three disasters in Madrid's last six European Bernabéu contraptions – disregarding the way that they have been beaten in only four of their last 46 UEFA Champions League home matches (W36). They went down 4-3 to Schalke in their 2014/15 round of 16-second leg and 3-1 against Juventus in the 2017/18 quarter-a second ago leg, yet simultaneously won the two ties on aggregate.
• Madrid had never lost dynamic home European matches the demolitions by CSKA and Ajax. Home and away, the games against Ajax and Paris were the main event when they had lost two European games in progression since going down to Galatasaray (2-3) and Borussia Dortmund (1-4) in the 2012/13 UEFA Champions League quarter-a second ago leg and semi-last first leg independently.
• The Merengues have persevered through three dynamic European obliterations simply on various occasions – most starting late in 1981.
• Madrid has won their last four matches at home to Belgian clubs, since that draw against Club Brugge in 1976, scoring 20 targets and giving up only three.
• Third in Spain in 2018/19, this is Madrid's 24th UEFA Champions League campaign – a joint-record close by Barcelona. They have prepared for the knockout modifies in most of their 23 seasons, furthermore a test best.
Club Brugge
• Club Brugge commenced this current season's gathering stage with a 0-0 attract at home to Galatasaray, their third progressive goalless attract the UEFA Champions League legitimate and a fifth progressive match without thrashing in the gathering stage (W1 D4), the last four of which have yielded clean sheets.
• Last season the Blauw-Zwart completed third behind Borussia Dortmund and Atlético Madrid on six, five in front of Monaco. Having lost their initial two installations, the Belgian club were unbeaten in their last four – the sole triumph a 4-0 win at Monaco that spoke to their greatest away accomplishment in the challenge. Club Brugge then moved into the UEFA Europa League, losing to Salzburg in the round of 32 (2-1 h, 0-4 a).
• Despite the success at Monaco – which finished a 13-year, 11-game keep running without a triumph (D2 L9) – Club Brugge have won just three of their last 19 installations in the UEFA Champions League appropriate (D5 L11).
• This season Club Brugge showed signs of improvement of Dynamo Kyiv in the third passing cycle (1-0 h, 3-3 a) preceding a play-off triumph against Austrian side LASK (1-0 a, 2-1 h). Matchday one made it nine UEFA Champions League matches without annihilation (W4 D5), qualifying included.
• Club Brugge may have won two of their last five away European matches (D2 L1) yet those are their solitary triumphs in the last 17 such excursions (D4 L11).
• Last season's 3-1 gathering stage misfortune in Madrid at Atlético made it three progressive thrashings in Spain for Club Brugge, who have always lost there in 12 past visits (D4 L8).
Second in Belgium behind Genk in 2018/19, this is Club Brugge's seventh UEFA Champions League gathering effort, and they're third in four years. They have never advanced to the knockout rounds.
• Runners-up to Liverpool in 1978, Club Brugge remain the main group from Belgium to have arrived at a European Cup last.
Connections and random data
• International colleagues:
Thibaut Courtois, Eden Hazard, and Simon Mignolet, Brandon Mechele, Hans Vanaken (Belgium)
• Has played in Belgium:
Thibaut Courtois (Genk 1999–2011)
• Courtois spent just one season as Genk's No1, keeping 14 clean sheets in their 2010/11 Belgian title achievement.
• Hazard has never played for a Belgian club, yet has four appearances against them in UEFA rivalry; he scored in LOSC Lille's 4-2 second-leg win against Genk in the UEFA Europa League play-offs in August 2009, having additionally included in the main leg, and showed up twice against Gent in the gathering phase of a similar challenge the accompanying season.
• Has played in Spain:
Federico Ricca (Málaga 2016–19)
