Real Madrid vs Shakhtar Donetsk UEFA Champions League Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
Real Madrid and Shakhtar Donetsk will meet for the third time in the UEFA Champions League, with the Spanish side winning both games the last time they were pitted together in the group stage in 2015/16.
Shakhtar Donetsk have conceded eight goals and faced 46 shots across their last two games against Real Madrid in the UEFA Champions League (0-4 and 3-4 in 2015/16).
Real Madrid are unbeaten in their last eight games against Ukrainian opponents in European competition (W5 D3), since losing 0-2 against Dynamo Kiev in the quarter-finals of the 1998/99 UEFA Champions League.
Shakhtar Donetsk have only lost on MD1 in two of their last seven Champions League campaigns (W3 D2), with those defeats coming against Real Madrid in 2015-16 (0-4) and Manchester City last season (0-3).
Real Madrid have progressed from all 28 of their UEFA Champions League group stages -along with Leeds United (two out of two), they are the only teams to have featured in more than one group stage and progressed from every single one.
Shakhtar Donetsk are unbeaten in their three UEFA Champions League away games under Luis Castro (W1 D2), picking up a 1-1 draw at Manchester City in their most recent away trip in the competition.
Real Madrid were eliminated in the Last 16 in the UEFA Champions League last season, losing both legs against Manchester City -the last time they lost three in a row was in September 1986 in the European Cup.
Shakhtar Donetsk have conceded at least one goal in each of their last 22 UEFA Champions League games, the fifth longest run without a clean sheet in the competition's history.
Real Madrid's Karim Benzema has been directly involved in six goals in his last four home games in the UEFA Champions League (four goals and two assists), as many as in his previous 14 home games in the competition combined (six goals scored).
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Junior Moraes has had a direct hand in eight goals in 12 UEFA Champions League games for Shakhtar Donetsk (five goals and three assists); the most of any player for the club since his debut in the competition in September 2018.'
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