Lazio vs Atletico Madrid Match Stats Preview
This will be the first ever UEFA Champions League meeting between Lazio and Atlético de Madrid. They last met in any competition in the 2011-12 UEFA Europa League round of 32, with the Spanish side winning 3-1 in Rome and 1-0 at home.
Atlético de Madrid have lost three of their last five UEFA Champions League games against Italian sides (W1 D1), having been unbeaten in their first seven such games (W5 D2). However, Lazio have won just one of their six against Spanish opponents in the competition (D2 L3).
Having been eliminated from the first round group stage in three consecutive UEFA Champions League appearances (2001-02, 2003-04 and 2007-08), Lazio remained unbeaten at this stage in their last appearance in 2020-21 (W2 D4).
Lazio haven't kept a clean sheet in any of their last 19 UEFA Champions League games, since a 2-0 win at Besiktas in September 2003. It's the joint-longest run of any Italian side in the competition, level with local rivals Roma (19 between 2010 and 2015).
Atlético de Madrid were eliminated from the UEFA Champions League group stages last season, but have never gone out at this stage in consecutive campaigns before.
Atlético de Madrid have kept a clean sheet in 43% of their UEFA Champions League matches (50/117). Of all teams to feature in more than one season of the competition, only Chelsea (44%) have a higher rate.
Lazio boss Maurizio Sarri will take charge of his third different Italian side in the UEFA Champions League (after Napoli and Juventus), with only Carlo Ancelotti having managed more different sides from Italy in the competition (4 – Juventus, Milan, Napoli and Parma).
This will be Diego Simeone’s 11th UEFA Champions League campaign in charge of Atlético de Madrid, having managed in the competition in every season since 2013-14. Simeone has overseen 95 games with the club in the UEFA Champions League, with only Alex Ferguson (190 with Man Utd) and Arsène Wenger (177 with Arsenal) having more with a single club.
Lazio midfielder Daichi Kamada has netted in each of his last three appearances in the UEFA Champions League group stage (3 goals last term) – indeed, Jude Bellingham (4) was the only central midfielder to score more often in the group stage in 2022-23.
Atlético de Madrid’s Antoine Griezmann has scored in each of the last nine editions of the UEFA Champions League (30 goals), dating back to the 2014-15 campaign. Indeed, Griezmann is one of only two players currently playing for a European club to have done so in each of the last nine, along with Barcelona’s Robert Lewandowski.
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