Lokomotive Moscow vs Atletico Madrid UEFA Champions League Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
Lokomotiv Moscow have never beaten Atlético Madrid in five previous meetings, drawing 3-3 in the UEFA Cup in 2007 and then losing both games in the 2017/18 UEFA Europa League and 2019/20 Champions League.
Should Atlético Madrid win this, they will have been Lokomotiv Moscow more often than any other side in major UEFA European competition, having beaten them four times already, never registering five wins over an opponent previously.
In their two UEFA Champions League meetings last season – both 2-0 wins for Atlético – Atlético Madrid had 43 shots against Lokomotiv Moscow combined (20 away, 23 home), with Lokomotiv firing just 14 in reply.
Atlético Madrid have won eight of their last nine UEFA European matches against Russian teams (D1) since a 0-2 defeat to Rubin Kazan in February 2013 in the Europa League.
Lokomotiv Moscow have lost nine of their last 11 UEFA European games against Spanish opponents (W1 D1), losing the last five by an aggregate score of 13-1 since a 2-1 win over Marcelo Bielsa’s Athletic Club in the Europa League in February 2012.
Atlético Madrid have shipped at least two goals in each of their last four UEFA Champions League matches, their worst run in major UEFA European competition since 1981 (a run of five).
Lokomotiv Moscow’s 2-1 defeat on MD2 against Bayern Munich was their 40th match in the UEFA Champions League – they have lost 25 of their first 40 games, the second-most in the competition’s history behind only Dinamo Zagreb (28).
João Félix scored in both UEFA Champions League matches against Lokomotiv Moscow last season - no Atlético player has ever scored in three consecutive games against an opponent in the competition.
Lokomotiv’s Zé Luís has been directly involved in three goals in his last five UEFA Champions League appearances (2 goals, 1 assist). Zé Luís is one of three players to play as many nine games across three different clubs (Braga, Spartak Moscow, Lokomotiv Moscow) without winning a game (D2 L7), along with Nicolae Stanciu (15) and Christophe Dugarry (10).
Atlético’s Héctor Herrera netted in both home and away UEFA Champions League group stages matches for FC Porto in 2018/19 against Lokomotiv Moscow, scoring twice – they are the only side Herrera has scored against more than once in the competition.
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