Real Madrid and Tottenham scuffle for supremacy
There is zero between Real Madrid CF and Tottenham Hotspur FC, with any carrying won their initial dual Group H games, scoring 6 goals and surrender one.
• The victors during a Santiago Bernabéu will take a organisation hold on a section, and Madrid have story on their side carrying won 3 of a prior 4 games between a clubs, sketch a other. Tottenham have never scored opposite Madrid in 360 mins of football.
Previous meetings
• Tottenham’s initial UEFA Champions League campaign, in 2010/11, was finished by Madrid. The Spanish side were 4-0 winners during home in a quarter-final initial leg, interjection to goals from destiny Tottenham striker Emmanuel Adebayor (4, 57), and one any from Ãngel Di MarÃa (72) and Cristiano Ronaldo (87); Tottenham played a infancy of a compare with 10 organisation after Peter Crouch collected a second yellow label in a 15th minute.
• The teams during a Bernabéu on 5 Apr 2011 were:
Madrid: Casillas, Ramos, Pepe, Carvalho, Marcelo, Alonso, Khedira (L Diarra 61), Di MarÃa (Kaká 77), Özil, Ronaldo, Adebayor (HiguaÃn 75).
Tottenham: Gomes, Ćorluka (Bassong 80), Gallas, Dawson, Assou-Ekotto, Sandro, Jenas, Van der Vaart (Defoe 46), Modrić, Bale, Crouch.
• Ronaldo got a usually idea during White Hart Lane in a second leg as a Spanish side finished a 5-0 total feat opposite a Tottenham side who enclosed Gareth Bale and Luka Modrić, both now during Madrid.
• The clubs’ usually other tie came in a 1984/85 UEFA Cup quarter-finals, when a 15th-minute possess idea from Tottenham’s Steve Perryman in a initial leg in London staid a contest.
Match background
Real Madrid
• Madrid non-stop Group H with a 3-0 feat during home to APOEL FC before a 3-1 success opposite Borussia Dortmund final time out.
• The 2-2 pull with Dortmund on matchday 6 final season is a unique arise Madrid have unsuccessful to win in their final 13 European home fixtures. The Merengues have won 32 of their final 37 UEFA Champions League home matches, losing usually once – 4-3 to FC Schalke 04 in their 2014/15 turn of 16 second leg, when they still prevailed 5-4 on aggregate.
• Madrid have not mislaid during home in a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre given a 3-2 retreat opposite AC Milan on 21 Oct 2009. Their home organisation record given afterwards is W21 D2 – with Dortmund, twice, a usually visitors to equivocate better during a Bernabéu.
• Madrid have mislaid usually one of their final 20 European matches – 2-1 during Club Atlético de Madrid in a 2016/17 UEFA Champions League semi-final second leg, when they went by 4-2 on total – winning 14 and sketch five.
• This is a second diversion opposite Premier League opponents this deteriorate for Madrid, who beat Manchester United FC 2-1 in a UEFA Super Cup in Skopje on 8 August.
• The Merengues are now dominant in their final 11 games opposite Premier League opponents (W8 D3), given a 4-0 detriment during Liverpool in a 2008/09 UEFA Champions League turn of 16 second leg – their record UEFA Champions League defeat.
• Their final UEFA Champions League games with Premier League antithesis came opposite Manchester City FC in a 2015/16 UEFA Champions League semi-finals, when Madrid won 1-0 in a home second leg and on aggregate.
• Madrid’s home record opposite English clubs is W8 D5 L2.
• Champions of Europe for a 12th time in 2016/17 – courtesy of their 4-1 final win opposite Juventus – Madrid are aiming to turn a initial organisation given FC Bayern München in 1976 to explain 3 unbroken European Champion Clubs’ Cups. AFC Ajax (1971–73) and Madrid themselves (1956–60) are a usually other sides to have won 3 or some-more in a row.
• In 21 prior participations in a UEFA Champions League, Madrid have never unsuccessful to swell to a final 16.
• Madrid finished second in their organisation in 2016/17, behind Dortmund – the initial time given 2012/13 they had unsuccessful to tip their section.
Tottenham
• Mauricio Pochettino’s organisation have available idential formula to their matchday 3 opponents: a 3-1 win opposite Dortmund and a 3-0 success divided to APOEL.
• This is Tottenham’s initial diversion opposite a Spanish side, other than those 2011 meetings with Madrid, given a 2-1 home detriment to Getafe CF in a 2007/08 UEFA Cup organisation stage.
• Tottenham are creation their fifth outing to Spain where they have available one pull – that 1985 stand-off during a Santiago Bernabéu – and 3 defeats, a others by FC Barcelona (1-0) in a 1982 European Cup Winners’ Cup semi-final, and Sevilla FC (2-1) in a 2006/07 UEFA Cup quarter-final.
• The London bar won their initial European prize by violence Club Atlético de Madrid 5-1 in a 1963 Cup Winners’ Cup final in Rotterdam.
• Tottenham had mislaid their prior dual European divided games before winning during APOEL. They picked adult 4 points on their travels in a 2016/17 organisation stage.
• The Lilywhites have won 3 of their final 12 European divided matches (D3 L6).
• This is Tottenham’s third time in a organisation theatre and a second incursion in as many seasons – the initial time they have managed uninterrupted European Cup campaigns.
• Twelve months ago Tottenham came third in their organisation and changed into a UEFA Europa League, where they fell 3-2 on total to KAA Gent in a turn of 32.
Coach and actor links
• Pochettino had dual spells in Spain as an RCD Espanyol player. He faced Madrid 16 times (W5 D2 L9), scoring once. As Espanyol manager between 2009 and 2012, he mislaid all 7 of his meetings with a Merengues.
• Bale done 142 joining appearances for Tottenham, scoring 46 times, between 2007 and 2013.
• Modrić played 127 Premier League games for Tottenham between 2008 and 2012, scoring 13 goals. He was partial of a side that reached a 2009 League Cup final, losing on penalties to Manchester United.
• Fernando Llorente faced Madrid 22 times with Athletic Club, Juventus and Sevilla (W3 D2 L17), scoring 8 times.
• Toby Alderweireld done 12 Liga appearances for Club Atlético de Madrid in their 2013/14 title-winning season. While he did not face a Merengues in a league, he played in Atlético’s Copa del Rey semi-final better and came on as a surrogate during their 2014 UEFA Champions League final extra-time loss.
• Cristiano Ronaldo faced Tottenham 11 times during his Manchester United career, winning 7 and sketch 4 and scoring 4 goals.
• Mateo KovaÄić played in both legs of FC Internazionale Milano’s 2012/13 UEFA Europa League turn of 16 rejecting opposite Tottenham (0-3 away, 4-1 home).
• International team-mates:
Raphaël Varane Hugo Lloris, Moussa Sissoko (France)
Gareth Bale Ben Davies (Wales)