Champions League Matchday 6: Real Madrid vs Manchester City facts

Real Madrid welcome a Manchester City side they eliminated from last season's UEFA Champions League as the teams meet for the fifth successive season on Matchday 6.

Last match

This is the teams' 15th fixture – all since 2012 – with Madrid having five victories to City's four.

The clubs have met in each of the last four seasons in the knockout rounds. Madrid triumphed in last season's knockout phase play-offs thanks to a 3-2 first leg victory in Manchester – Jude Bellingham getting an added-time winner – and 3-1 in Madrid via Kylian Mbappé's hat-trick, making it four goals in the tie for the Frenchman.

Madrid also knocked out City on penalties after a 4-4 aggregate draw in the 2023/24 quarter-finals and 6-5 in the 2021/22 semi-finals, the English club triumphing 4-2 in the 2019/20 round of 16 and 5-1 in the 2022/23 semi-finals.

Madrid have lost only one of their seven home matches against City (W4 D2), 1-2 in the first leg of that 2019/20 tie.

However, the Spanish side have been beaten in their last three games against English opposition, most recently 1-0 at Liverpool on Matchday 4.

City have won six of their last seven group stage/league phase matches against Spanish opposition (L1), including the last four.

A 2-0 success at Villarreal on Matchday 3 ended City's five-game sequence without a win against La Liga clubs (D3 L2).

Real Madrid

Madrid are in the Champions League proper for the 30th time, a competition record they share with Barcelona. They have qualified for the knockout rounds in all 29 campaigns.

A team coached by Carlo Ancelotti were 11th in last season's league phase (W5 L3), eventually losing 1-5 on aggregate to Arsenal in the quarter-finals (0-3 a, 1-2 h).

Manchester City

This is City's 15th successive season in the Champions League proper; they have featured in every campaign since 2011/12 and have reached the knockout stages in each of the last 12.

Having finished 22nd in last season's league phase (W3 D2 L3), City lost 3-6 on aggregate to holders Madrid in the knockout phase play-offs.

Key stats

Madrid's 4-3 Matchday 5 victory at Olympiacos means they have won seven of their last eight league phase matches (L1).

Madrid have also triumphed in 13 of their last 14 home games at this stage (L1).

Aged 23 years 30 days, Eduardo Camavinga could become the second-youngest French player to reach 50 appearances in the Champions League proper after Mbappé (22 years 339 days).

Mbappé is the top scorer in this season's Champions League on nine goals – already his highest tally for a single season.

Mbappé has seven goals in seven appearances against City, including his first-ever Champions League strikes in both legs of Monaco's win in the 2016/17 quarter finals.

City have won three of their five games in this season's league phase (D1) – though a 0-2 loss against Bayer Leverkusen on Matchday 5 ended their 25-game, seven-year unbeaten home run in the group stage/league phase.

City have scored 297 Champions League goals, Matchday 1 to final.

Erling Haaland has scored nine goals in nine Champions League appearances against Spanish teams.

The Norwegian has scored in his last five Champions League starts, a total of seven goals.