Lille remains on a victory against the Spaniards
This is the first time in its history that LOSC faces Real Madrid in an official match. The Mastiffs have already crossed swords 9 times with a Spanish team in European competition for 3 draws, 5 defeats and only 1 victory. It was also the last meeting, against Sevilla FC (1-2), on November 2, 2021 at the Ramon-Sanchez-Pizjuan stadium, in the Champions League.
A great series at home
Since the start of last season, LOSC have won 7 of their 8 home matches on the European stage. The only exception being a 1-1 draw against Sturm Graz in the Europa Conference League.
The best team in Europe?
For its part, Real Madrid are undefeated in their last 14 Champions League matches (10 wins, 4 draws). This is the meringue club’s longest unbeaten streak since April 2016-May 2017 (15).
Hard to lead against Real
Among the clubs having played in the last two editions of the Champions League (2023/24 and 2024/25), Real Madrid are the team having been behind during the lowest percentage of their total playing time (6.4%) . In just under 1,400 minutes played during this period, Carlo Ancelotti’s side were only behind for 90 minutes and 2 seconds in total.
Train to Vinícius!
Since the return of Carlo Ancelotti to the Real Madrid bench in 2021-2022, Vinícius Júnior is the player with the most minutes in the Champions League (3,165), being involved in the most goals (32), having scored the most dribbles (119) and gave the most last passes before a shot (71) over the period.
Zhegrova, no better since Keita
On the Lille side, Edon Zhegrova completed 6 dribbles against Sporting CP during the 1era day, equaling the highest total for a LOSC player during his first start in the Champions League (6 also for Kader Keita against Anderlecht in September 2006).
Jonathan David, Lille’s top scorer in the Champions League
On the verge of reaching the podium of the best scorers in the history of LOSC, in all competitions (91), Jonathan David is in any case already on the first step of the podium of the best Lille scorers in the Champions League. With 5 goals, the Canadian striker is ahead of Bruno Cheyrou, Nicolas Fauvergue, Moussa Sow, Burak Yilmaz and Edon Zhegrova (3 goals). Then come Salaheddine Bassir, Peter Odemwingie, Tulio De Melo, Victor Osimhen and Jonathan Ikoné (2), then Johnny Ecker, Dagui Bakari, Grégory Tafforeau, Adékanmi Olufadé, Milenko Acimovic, Michel Bastos, Johan Audel, Mathieu Robail, Daniel Gygax, Jean II Makoun, Kader Keita, Aurélien Chedjou, Florent Balmont, Ryan Mendes, Benoît Pedretti, Lucas Digne, Salomon Kalou, Djibril Sidibé, Gianni Bruno, Sébastien Corchia, Loïc Rémy, Angel Gomes, Tiago Santos and Aïssa Mandi (1 goal).
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