Ancelotti, Vinicius, Pulisic and more: All the key stats ahead of Real Madrid vs. Milan | OneFootball

Real Madrid and AC Milan will face each other in a competitive game for the first time in well over a decade tonight in the Champions League.

Milan are currently in their 125th season as a club and they have faced Real Madrid on 15 occasions in that century-and-a-quarter, the second-most of any Spanish club after Barcelona (19). The record is perfectly split with six wins for the Rossoneri, three draws and six for Los Blancos.

Our pre-match preview has a detailed insight on the opposition as well as the latest team news, while below are the key stats ahead of the fixture.

Key facts and stats

➤ Real Madrid have won five of their seven home matches against Milan in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League (D1 L1), beating them 2-0 in the most recent such match in October 2010.

➤ Milan are winless in their last three UEFA Champions League games against Real Madrid (D2 L1) since they won 3-2 in October 2009 with goals from Andrea Pirlo and a brace from Alexandre Pato.

➤ Real Madrid have won 17 of their last 18 European matches against Italian opposition, with their only defeat in this sequence coming at home to Juventus in April 2018 in a UEFA Champions League quarter-final match.

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➤ This will be the fifth time Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti has faced his former side Milan since coaching them (2001-2009), and the first time in European competition. The previous four games all came while in charge of Napoli between 2018 and 2019, with Ancelotti only managing to beat his former side on one occasion (D2 L1): 3-2 in August 2018 in a Serie A home game.

➤ Real Madrid are unbeaten in their last 15 home games in the UEFA Champions League (W12 D3), despite being on their longest run without a clean sheet at home in the competition (six games) since February 2013 (a run of eight).

➤ Milan have only won one of their last seven away games in the UEFA Champions League (D3 L3), with that one victory coming against Newcastle United in last season’s group stage (2-1). Milan have scored just three goals across these seven matches, while failing to score at all in five of them.

➤ Since the start of the 2022-23 campaign, Real Madrid’s Vinícius Júnior has been directly involved in 25 goals in 25 appearances in the UEFA Champions League (16 goals, nine assists) – the most of any player in this period. Indeed, his nine assists are also the out-right most of any player in the same time.

➤ Christian Pulisic has scored three goals in his last four games for Milan in the UEFA Champions League, as many as he netted in his previous 25 games in the competition combined (3). If he finds the net here, 2024-25 would already be his best-ever scoring return in a single Champions League campaign (currently on two goals).

➤ Since scoring in each of his first four UEFA Champions League games for Real Madrid, Jude Bellingham hasn’t found the net in any of his last 10 appearances in the competition. However, Bellingham has stood out for his defensive work this term, leading all Real Madrid players in the 2024-25 edition for duels won (20), tackles (8) and high-intensity pressures (169).

➤ Luka Modric has made 98 starts for Real Madrid in the UEFA Champions League to date. Should he be named in the starting XI versus Milan, he’d overtake Toni Kroos (98) to become the midfielder with the most starts for the club in European Cup/Champions League history.