The 10 most famous facts from the Bayern-Real Madrid preview

1. Twelfth semi-final for Real Madrid in the last fourteen editions

Real Madrid, the team that has won the most Champions Leagues, on fourteen occasions, is also the team that has played in the most semifinals, with 33. It has regained power in the reigning competition, by winning five of the last ten editions, becoming the first club to win three in a row since the competition’s format was changed. They lost two of their last three semifinals. In 2021 against Chelsea and 2023 against Manchester City.

2. Real Madrid have won their last nine qualifiers against German teams

Since the 2012-13 season, Real Madrid have not lost a tie against a German team. His last executioner was Borussia Dortmund. A year before, Bayern Munich in the semi-final penalty shootout due to mistakes by Sergio Ramos, Kaká and Cristiano Ronaldo. Madrid’s record in two-legged ties against German clubs in UEFA competitions is 19 wins and eight losses. Their good dynamics have been shaped by the nine consecutive qualifying rounds they have won, three of them against Bayern and the most recent, in the round of 16 of this edition of the ‘Champions’ against Leipzig.

3. Eighth semi-final between Bayern and Real Madrid

In recent history, Real Madrid have been able to come close, emerging victorious in the last two rounds in the semi-finals of the Champions League, but Bayern Munich continue to dominate overall. On four occasions they advanced to the final (1976, 1987, 2001 and 2012), compared to the Madrid team on three occasions (2000, 2014 and 2018). Whenever the Madrid team eliminated Bayern in the semi-finals, they were proclaimed champions.

4. Real Madrid already dominates history

Despite the beginnings and curses in Munich that it has suffered for 38 years, the recent history with six wins and one draw since April 2012, has made the Spanish team lead the total number of matches . In a total of 26 games between the two clubs, Real Madrid won 12, Bayern 11 and they tied on three occasions. He also scored more goals, 41 to the Germans’ 39. And he kept a clean sheet on more occasions, seven to his rival’s two.

5. Tuchel wins head-to-head ‘Carletto’

This will be the tenth meeting between Thomas Tuchel and Carlo Ancelotti, with a slight advantage over the previous ones for the German coach. They won four games, drew two and lost three. He needs fewer goals than ‘Carletto’, fourteen in favor compared to the 16 scored by Ancelotti’s teams when they face each other under the command of Borussia Dortmund, Chelsea and PSG, the first against Bayern, Everton, Naples and Real Madrid of Italy. coach.

6. Real Madrid have fifteen games to score against Bayern

Since May 1, 2001, when Real Madrid lost 0-1 at the Santiago Bernabéu, he has scored in every game he has played against Bayern. He has scored fifteen goals in a row, including 0-4 at Allianz in April 2014 and 4-2 at Santiago Bernabéu in April 2017, his biggest wins. The total number of Real Madrid players in the last fifteen games is 32 goals. An average of 2.1 per match. In the last five games he has scored at least two goals in every match.

7. Kane and Sané, Bayern’s big danger

Bayern Munich boast a pair that complement each other best in European football, with Bayer Leverkusen’s Víctor Boniface and Florian Wirtz. Between Harry Kane and Leroy Sané nine goals have been scored. Five assists from Kane to his teammate and four from Sané to the English number 9.

8. Nacho, going for 250 wins; Rodrygo and Valverde, 50th match in the Champions League

Nacho Fernández, captain of Real Madrid, has emerged as a starter after his impressive performance in the second leg of the quarter-finals at the Etihad against City. From marking Erling Haaland to Harry Kane in a match where he will achieve his 250th victory at the Madrid club. He participated in 356 matches, of which he started 261. This was their 68th game in the Champions League.

Rodrygo Goes and Fede Valverde will play their 50th ‘Champions’ games if they have minutes. The Brazilian striker has scored 20 goals in his 49 games, won 30, drawn nine and lost ten. He has already scored in the semifinals, a double against City that earned them a place in the last final played and won by Real Madrid. The Uruguayan midfielder has scored three goals in his 49 appearances in the competition, 38 as a starter. He won 30, drew eight and lost eleven.

9. Ancelotti and Kroos reunite at Bayern

Carlo Ancelotti managed the German giant for two seasons, with Toni Kroos as the mastermind for some time, winning his first ‘Champions’, until he decided to turn his career around by playing for Real Madrid. ‘Carletto’, the only coach to win each of the major leagues, won three titles on the German bench: Bundesliga and two German Super Cups. They are unbeaten at Bayern when they face Milan six times and Real Madrid twice.

Kroos won a historic treble with Bayern, a club where he won three Bundesliga titles, a Champions League, a Club World Cup, three German Cups and a German Super Cup. Among his teammates, only Manuel Neuer and Thomas Müller remain in the squad.

10. The Bellingham Curse

There is no rival worse for Jude Bellingham than Bayern. As a Borussia Dortmund player, he lost a Bundesliga on the last day and never tasted victory. Their record was disastrous: seven defeats and one draw. He did not score a goal. Other teammates who also don’t have fond memories of facing Bayern during their time in Germany are Antonio Rüdiger and Joselu. Both Stuttgart, the centre-back, and Hoffenheim, Eintracht and Hannover, the Spanish striker, have lost all five of their ranking matches.