Real Madrid vs Borussia Dortmund: UEFA Champions League - BBC Sport

This game will see Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund meet for the first time since last seasonâ€TMs UEFA Champions League final, won 2-0 by the Madrid side at Wembley.

Borussia Dortmund have never won in seven away UEFA Champions League matches at Real Madrid (D2 L5), with their most recent visit a 3-2 defeat in December 2017.

No side has ever played more away UEFA Champions League matches at one stadium without winning than Borussia Dortmund at the Santiago Bernabéu (P7 D2 L5), with Chelsea also playing seven times without success at Barcelonaâ€TMs Spotify Camp Nou.

Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti has alternated between a win (4) and defeat (3) in seven UEFA Champions League meetings with Borussia Dortmund, winning the most recent game in last seasonâ€TMs final. His four wins against them have all come in different decades â€" 1997 with Parma, 2002 with Milan and 2014 and 2024 with Real Madrid.

Real Madrid were beaten by Lille last time out in the UEFA Champions League (0-1), ending a 14-game unbeaten run in the competition (W10 D4). In games played in the group/league stage, they havenâ€TMt suffered consecutive Champions League defeats since the period between December 2018 and September 2019 (0-3 v CSKA Moscow and Paris SG).

Borussia Dortmund are the top scorers in the UEFA Champions League this season (10), as well as the team with the biggest positive differential between xG and goals scored (+5.5 â€" 10 goals from 4.5 xG). Indeed, it took them until their eighth game in the competition last term to reach 10 goals.

Borussia Dortmund are the team that have averaged the most passes per sequence of play in the UEFA Champions League this season (5.95 â€" from open play), just ahead of Manchester City (5.91). The German side averaged 3.35 passes per sequence in the competition last term, which ranked 17th overall.

Borussia Dortmund are the opponent that Real Madridâ€TMs Kylian Mbappé has faced the most times in the UEFA Champions League (8) â€" after scoring three goals in his first two games against them (in 2016-17 for Monaco), heâ€TMs only netted once in the last six and failed to find the net in the last three.

Since the start of last season, the two players with the most assists delivered in the UEFA Champions League are Real Madridâ€TMs Jude Bellingham and Borussia Dortmundâ€TMs Marcel Sabitzer (five each). Three of Bellinghamâ€TMs five assists have also coming following a carry (travelling 5+ metres with the ball); the joint-most in this period, along with Phil Foden (3).

Jamie Gittens has netted two goals in two appearances for Borussia Dortmund in the UEFA Champions League this season. If he finds the net in this game, heâ€TMd be the youngest Englishman ever to score against Real Madrid in the competition (20y 75d), with Alan Smith being the current-youngest (20y 129d for Leeds United in March 2001).