Atalanta made his consecutive appearance in the 16th against Real Madrid, a 13-time European champion.
Atalanta achieved his moment in the eighth consecutive place against Real Madrid, a 13-time European champion, who has lost to this level in his last two UEFA Champions League campaigns.
The Italian club has won 3 of their six Group D matches this season, sealing a elimination spot with a 1-0 win over Ajax in their last match, albeit a 5-0 home defeat to Liverpool on the third day, Atalanta’s toughest European defeat. – Played a decisive role in hitting them at the English club.
Instead, Madrid recovered from one point in their first two matches to finish first in Group B, winning 3 of their next 4 matches, adding a 2-0 home win over Borussia Monchengladbach in the sixth round, which sealed his progress as a department winner. .
This is the first set-up of the groups and the 3rd setting of Atalanta against a Spanish club in UEFA competition.
Form guide
Atalanta’s Group D record this season W3 E2 L1, with the 3 home wins: in Midjtylland (4-0), Liverpool (2-0) and, decisively, Ajax (1-0). In Berg, they tied 2–2 for Ajax – a match in which they scored two goals – and Midjylland (1-1) in one aspect or another of the 5-0 loss to Liverpool.
Atalanta has won two of their seven home games in the UEFA Champions League (D3), losing 2–1 to Shakhtar Donetsk in Milan at the time of last season and suffering a record loss to Liverpool in Bergamo, where they have not yet won the competition. , has suffered 3 defeats in his 24 European home games in general (S12 D9).
Starting in 2019/20, this is Atalanta’s consecutive time in the UEFA Champions League after finishing third in Serie A last season.
At first, it seemed that the first look at the Bergamo club festival was to be brief, with Atalanta wasting their first three UEFA Champions League matches last season, against Dinamo Zagreb (0-four a), Shakhtar Donetsk (1-14:00 hours) and Manchester City (1-5 a). However, a point in the house against City in the fourth round (1-1) was the catalyst for a remarkable resurgence, with the Italian team beating Dinamo 2-0 at home and Shakhtar 3-0 away to take the position of moment in the City organization.
Even better in the 16-way circular, Atalanta beat Valencia 4-1 at home and 4-3 home with Josip Ili-i, the first player to score 4 times outside in a UEFA Champions League playoff match in that last match. . .
Atalanta seemed ready to continue his magical career thanks to the purpose of Mario Pa’ali’s first half opposed to Paris Saint-Germain in the quarter-finals, but the French scored twice in the final moments to finish their adventure.
Ajax’s victory in the sixth round of Atalanta’s 50th European match; This is his eighth continental festival campaign. They reached the semi-finals of the European Cup Winners’ Cup in 1987/88 and the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup three years later.
The Italian club have lost six of their last 29 European matches (W14 D9).
Last season’s draw opposed Valencia Atalanta’s only pass against Spanish rivals.
Real Madrid
Madrid have amassed six of their 10 numbers at the organizational level this season against Internazionale, which they beat 3-2 at home and 2-0 outside. In their first two Group B matches he only took one point, losing 3–2 at home to Shakhtar Donetsk before the goals of Karim Benzema (87) and Casemiro (90 3) tied 2–2 against Borussia Monchengladbach in the day of the day. Victories against Inter were followed by a 2-0 loss to Shakhtar. However, he was defeated by the same scoreboard in the last circular of the organizing parties.
Madrid finished first in their organization for a moment in the last five seasons, but for the seventeenth time in total, only moment Barcelona (21).
Champion of Spain for a 34th record in 2019/20, this is the 25th UEFA Champions League crusade in Madrid, a record shared with Barcelona, which qualified for the 16 in its 25 seasons, also a bigger competition.
This is the 51st European Cup crusade of the thirteen-time champion, more than any other team.
In 2019/20, Zinédine Zidane’s team finished moment in their segment the eventual finalists of Paris Saint-Germain, completing with 11 points, five less than Paris. His crusade ended in the 16-way circular by losing 2-1 at home and away to Manchester City.
After playing in the semi-finals or more for 8 consecutive seasons between 2010/11 and 2017/18, Madrid lost in the last 16 of the last two campaigns, taking flight against Ajax in 2018/19. 8 consecutive victories; his overall record at this point is W9 L8.
Madrid have won 10 of their last 11 matches against Italian clubs, with the exception of a 3–1 home defeat to Juventus, which they beat 4–1 in the 2017 UEFA Champions League final in Cardiff, in the 2017/18 quarter-finals. Madrid controlled to win 3-0 in Turin.
The good fortune of 2-0 at Inter in the fourth round of this season a fifth consecutive victory in Italy for Madrid, which had already played 8 games without winning (4 draws and 4 draws).
This 2018 draw against Juventus is Madrid’s last two-man match with a Serie A team; his overall record in this type of competition is 13 wins and 9 wins in the last three, against Juve, Roma (2-0 a, 2-0 at home) in 2015/16 of 16 and Napoli in the same stadium in 2016/17 (3-1am, 3-1 a), after a streak of 8 consecutive two-legged knockout losses against Italian opponent.
Madrid have won 4 of their last 10 UEFA Champions League matches (two draws and four draws) and lost seven of their last 17 matches (S7 draw 3).
The Spaniard has won 17 of his last 29 European matches away from home, wasting seven.
Benzema’s purpose at the time he equaled the record of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo by scoring in 16 consecutive UEFA Champions League campaigns.
Links and anecdotes
Zidane played in Italy for Juventus between 1996 and 2001 and faced Atalanta 4 times at this time (2 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss), scoring two goals in a 3–1 win in 1997/98.
He played in Spain: Luis Muriel (Granada 2010/11, Seville 2017-18) Cristiano Piccini (Betis 2014-17, Valencia 2018-20) Johan Mojica (Rayo Vallecano 2013/14 and 2016/17, Real Valladolid 2014-16 on loan, Girona 2017-20) Mario Pa’alio (loaned Elche 2014/15)
Muriel has faced Madrid twice with Sevilla, losing 5-0 in Madrid and winning 3-2 at home.
Piccini lost all four games to Madrid while playing in Spain, his groups scored two goals and conceded 15; sent off in Betis’ 2–1 loss at La Liga at Santiago Bernabéu on 12 March 2017.
Mojica came as an expired replacement in La Liga del Girona’s 2–1 win over Madrid in October 2017.
Elche de Pa’ali lost 5-1 home and 2-0 at home to Madrid in his season in Spain.
Colleagues of Rafael Tolai and Casemiro in Sao Paulo in 2012.
International teammates: Mario Pa’ani
Remo Freuler scored in the 3–3 draw of the Swiss UEFA League of Nations with Toni Kroos’ Germany on 13 October 2020.
Freuler also discovered it in a 1–1 draw against a Spanish team led by Sergio Ramos on November 14, 2020.
Ruslan Malinovskyi scored Ukraine’s goal from the penalty spot in the 2–1 UEFA Nations League loss to Germany at Kroos on 10 October 2020.
Ramos changed two consequences in Spain’s 3–3 friendly draw with Russia on November 14, 2017; Aleksei Miranchuk scored for the house in St. Petersburg.