Bayern Munich vs Atletico Madrid UEFA Champions League Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
Bayern Munich and Atletico Madrid will meet for the seventh time in European competition, with the German side edging the Spaniards in terms of victories to date (W3 D1 L2).
This is the second time Bayern Munich and Atletico Madrid have been drawn together in the group stage of a UEFA Champions League campaign, with each side winning 1-0 in their home fixture in 2016/17 (both sides went on to qualify for the knockout stages).
Bayern Munich have won the previous two occasions when hosting Atletico Madrid in the UEFA Champions League, both of which came in 2016. In the first of those, Bayern's 2-1 victory wasn't enough to see them avoid elimination in the 2015/16 semi-final second leg (2-2 on aggregate, lost on away goals).
Atletico Madrid have lost five of their last six UEFA Champions League games away to German opposition (W1 ), including defeats in each of the most recent two -0-4 v Borussia Dortmund in October 2018 and 1-2 v Bayer Leverkusen in November 2019.
Bayern Munich became the first team in European Cup/Champions League history to win every game before winning the competition (11 wins) -indeed, they will resume in 2020-21 already on the longest winning run of any team in European Cup/ Champions League history (11).
Atletico Madrid have only won two of their last 1 O away games in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League (D4 L4), including just one victory in the most recent five (D1 L3) -2-0 v Lokomotiv Moscow in October 2019.
Bayern striker Robert Lewandowski has scored in nine consecutive UEFA Champions League group stage appearances -should he score in this game, he would become the first to score in 10 in a row, with his current run of nine a joint-record with Cristiano Ronaldo who scored in nine between 2012 and 2014. Atletico Madrid's Luis Suarez has netted five goals in his last five starts in the UEFA Champions League (all for Barcelona), as many as he had in his previous 31 starts in the competition combined.
Serge Gnabry was directly involved in 11 goals in 10 games in the UEFA Champions League last season (nine goals and two assists) -only teammate Robert Lewandowski had a direct hand in more (20 -15 goals, 5 assists).
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Among goalkeepers to have made 10+ appearances in the UEFA Champions League, only Edwin van der Sar has kept a clean sheet in a higher percentage of his games than Atletico Madrid's Jan Oblak (51 % -26/51).
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