Inter Milan vs Borussia Monchengladbach UEFA Champions League Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
This will be the fifth meeting between Inter Milan and Borussia Monchengladbach, and first since November 1979 in the UEFA Cup -the two sides have both registered one victory each across the previous four (D2).
Borussia Monchengladbach have only lost two of their last 15 games against Italian opponents in European competition (W6 D7), with both of those defeats coming in the Last 32 of the UEFA Europa League -0-2 v Lazio in 2012/13 and 0-1 v Fiorentina in 2016/17.
Inter Milan have lost five of their last seven UEFA Champions League games against German opposition (W2), although they did win the most recent occasion in which they hosted a German side -2-0 v Borussia Dortmund in the group stage last season.
Away from home, Borussia Monchengladbach have only won one of their previous six games in the UEFA Champions League (D1 L4) -2-0 v Celtic in the 2016/17 group stage. Inter Milan have only won two of their last 10 games in the UEFA Champions League (D3 L5), while keeping just a single clean sheet in this run (2-0 v Borussia Dortmund in October 2019).
Borussia Monchengladbach manager Marco Rose has only lost two of his 18 group stage games in European competition (W11 D5), however all of those came in the UEFA Europa League -this will be his first game as a manager in the UEFA Champions League. Romelu Lukaku has scored nine goals in 11 appearances in European competition for Inter Milan -since the start of last season, only Robert Lewandowski (15) and Erling Haaland (10) have netted more across the UEFA Champions League and Europa League.
Inter Milan striker Lautaro Martinez has scored five goals in six starts in the UEFA Champions League, and eight goals in 14 starts for the club in European competition overall.
Lars Stindl is Borussia Monchengladbach's top scorer in the UEFA Champions League with five goals and has been directly involved in eight goals in his 11 appearances in the competition to date (five goals and three assists).
Since debuting in the competition in September 2011, Borussia Monchengladbach goalkeeper Vann Sommer has kept just four clean sheets in 26 games in the UEFA Champions League (15%).
COMMENTS