Stade Brestois is making the most of its Champions League adventure. The Breton club will end its group stage against Real Madrid in Guingamp. While waiting to compete in the play-offs where a fun surprise will perhaps await him.
After five days of the Champions League, Stade Brestois is clearly one of the good surprises of this new format. Despite its first defeat in the competition in the middle of the week on the pitch of FC Barcelona, Eric Roy's group is in eleventh place with ten points on the clock and is already practically guaranteed to compete in at least the play-offs. Brest will be entitled to one last prestigious display at home to complete its group stage. Indeed, at the end of January, SB29 will welcome Real Madrid to the Stade du Roudourou in Guingamp. A match which already promises, especially since the Merengue, title holders, are clearly in a bad position and are not safe from early elimination. The infirmary is full and the Madrid collective is in difficulty. However, the confrontation between the two teams in two months may not be the last.
Brest – Real Madrid in the Champions League play-offs?
Indeed, Real Madrid is currently in 24th place, at the extreme limit of a simple play-off place. Direct qualification via the top 8 is becoming more and more distant, but according to a calculation carried out by Football Meets Data, Brest is currently the team with the best chance of facing Real Madrid in the play-offs at the start of 2025 (6% of chances of this happening). Note that LOSC and AS Monaco both have a 5.2% chance of facing the Merengue at the same stage of the competition. Also in a tough situation at the moment, Manchester City is also well placed at this level. The two most consistent teams in C1 in recent years may find themselves prematurely in the competition. See you in two months for the outcome of the first phase of the new edition of the Champions League, with perhaps a decisive match between Brest and Real Madrid.
