UCL: Tottenham-Real Madrid 3-1|as it happened...
MATCH PREVIEW :
- Real Madrid are unbeaten against Tottenham in European competition; they have faced each other five times previously, with Real winning three of them (D2).
- Real Madrid are unbeaten in their last 30 Champions League group games (W22 D8), their last defeat dating back to October 2012 away against Dortmund.
- Real Madrid have failed to score only once in their last 53 Champions League group games (Paris SG 0-0 Real Madrid, October 2015).
- Having previously gone four home Champions League games without a win (D1 L3), Spurs have since put two victories back-to-back in such matches.
- Tottenham Hotspur have never won at home in European competition versus Spanish opposition (D2 L3).
- No other team have registered more attempts on the counter-attack than the Spurs this season in the Champions League (5 – fast break); scoring with one of those efforts.
- Each of the 27 English clubs with 7+ points after 3 Champions League matchdays have progressed to the Last 16 (since the current format in 2003/04).
- Cristiano Ronaldo has scored in each of his three previous Champions League games against Tottenham (3 goals).
- Harry Kane and Cristiano Ronaldo have both scored more goals than anyone else in the competition this season (5).
- Gareth Bale is in line to make his 50th Champions League appearance; he’s scored 15 times and recorded 12 assists in the competition across his previous 49 outings.
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