FC Bayern vs Real Madrid Matchday Stats Preview
FC Bayern München and Real Madrid is the most played fixture in the history of the European Cup/UEFA Champions League (26 games), with 24 of those coming in the knockout stages of the competition – also the most between two sides.
This is the eighth time FC Bayern München and Real Madrid have been drawn together in a semi-final in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League. After progressing from four of the first five between 1976 and 2012, Bayern have been eliminated in each of the last two (2013-14 and 2017-18).
FC Bayern München are winless in their last seven games against Real Madrid, losing six of those meetings (D1). Indeed, this is the German’s side longest winless run against an opponent in European competition.
Real Madrid have won each of their last three away games against FC Bayern München (0-4 in 2013-14, 1-2 in 2016-17 and 1-2 in 2017-18), the longest ever winning run away to the German side in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League. In fact, no other team has ever won consecutive away games against Bayern across the two competitions.
Real Madrid are unbeaten in their last 10 games in the UEFA Champions League (W7 D3), all of which have been this season. Only once previously have they had a longer unbeaten run within a single campaign in the competition, going 11 without defeat in the 2016-17 edition (which they would go on to win).
FC Bayern München have only lost one of their last 24 home games in the UEFA Champions League (W20 D3), and are unbeaten in the last 15 (W12 D3) since losing to Paris Saint-Germain in April 2021 (2-3).
Real Madrid have scored the most goals from direct attacks (7) in the UEFA Champions League this season. Indeed, among sides to qualify from the group stage this term, only FC København (38.9) have a lower average starting distance than Real Madrid (39.6), determining how close to their own goal they recover the ball in open play on average (in metres).
Harry Kane has been directly involved in 10 goals in 10 games for FC Bayern München in the UEFA Champions League this season (7 goals, 3 assists). Should he score or assist in this game, he would establish a new record for the most goal involvements by an English player in a single campaign in the competition (also 10 by David Beckham in 1998-99 and 2001-02 and Steven Gerrard in 2007-08).
Among players to have attempted 50+ dribbles in the UEFA Champions League since the start of last season, the four with the highest dribble success rate are all FC Bayern München teammates: Alphonso Davies (62.1%), Leroy Sané (60.3%), Jamal Musiala (60.2%) and Kingsley Coman (60.0%). Meanwhile, the player with the most completed dribbles in the tournament over this period is Real Madrid winger VinÃcius Júnior (68).
Real Madrid’s Jude Bellingham is the player who has made the most high-intensity pressures in the UEFA Champions League this season (496). In the second leg against Manchester City, Bellingham averaged 1.2 high-intensity pressures per minute on the pitch (146 overall); the highest average by a player to play 90 or more minutes in a game in the tournament this term.
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