Champions League Matchday 5: Atlético de Madrid vs Inter facts

Inter put their perfect UEFA Champions League record on the line at Atlético de Madrid – the team that knocked them out of the competition two seasons ago.

Last match

Atleti and Inter have met three times, most recently in the 2023/24 round of 16 when the Spanish side won 3-2 on penalties. Inter won the first leg 1-0 at home before a 2-1 Atleti victory in Spain in which Antoine Griezmann scored their first goal to cancel out Federico Dimarco's opener.

Atleti were 2-0 winners against Inter in the 2010 UEFA Super Cup in Monaco.

The Madrid club have won eight of their last ten home matches against Italian visitors (D1 L1), although home and away that 2024 victory against Inter is one of only three in the last nine (D2 L4).

Inter's last games against Spanish opponents were a 7-6 aggregate victory against Barcelona in last season's semi-finals (3-3 a, 4-3 h aet), making it one defeat in their last eight matches against Liga clubs (W3 D4).

Inter have won just one of their last 15 group stage/league phase matches against Spanish opposition (D6 L8) but are unbeaten in the last four (W1 D3).

Atleti

Atlético are making their 16th appearance in the Champions League proper and a 13th in succession. They have featured every season since 2013/14.

Runners-up in 2014 and 2016, both against Real Madrid, Diego Simeone's side lost to their neighbours on penalties in last season's round of 16 (1-2 a, 1-0 h, 2-4 pens). They had finished fifth in the league phase (W6 L2).

Inter 

This is the Nerazzurri's 19th appearance in the Champions League, and an eighth in succession.

Inter reached a second final in three seasons in 2024/25, but went down 0-5 against Paris Saint-Germain in Munich – the biggest final defeat in European Cup history.

Key stats

Atleti have lost only one of their last 17 home Champions League matches (W12 D4), winning 11 of the last 12 (L1) – including 3-1 against Union Saint-Gilloise on Matchday 4.

Julián Alvarez has scored nine goals in 13 Champions League appearances for Atleti, having got eight in 17 matches for Manchester City.

Inter are one of three teams to have won their first four league phase fixtures, along with Arsenal and Bayern München.

Inter have lost only one of their last 18 group stage/league phase games (W13 D4), winning ten of the last 11 (L1) – including 2-1 at home to Kairat Almaty on Matchday 4 – and keeping 11 clean sheets in the last 13.

Inter have scored two or more goals in 11 of their last 12 Champions League matches including all four in 2025/26.

Lautaro Martínez has scored 12 goals in his last 11 Champions League appearances and has found the net in five successive league phase matches – eight goals in all.