Five months ago, Real Madrid, led by Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti, defeated Borussia Dortmund with two clean goals in the final match of the tournament, which was held at Wembley Stadium.
Real Madrid always knows how to win the Champions League title, no matter how difficult things are, as it defeated all the continent’s clubs to win its fifteenth title in the tournament last season, when Dortmund failed to translate its control over the course of the match into goals before it was subjected to two surprise blows. In the second half.
However, Real Madrid did not present the performances expected of it in the new version of the tournament. After beating Stuttgart 3/1 in the first round, Real Madrid suffered its first defeat in the Champions League since May 2023, when it lost to French club Lille with a clean goal in a major surprise.
After gaining only three points from the first two rounds, Real Madrid is in seventeenth place in the tournament’s new format, which is being held with the participation of 36 teams for the first time.
But the team regained its balance and was able to achieve two victories in the Spanish League over Villarreal and Celta Vigo, and another difficult match awaits it after this match, as it will face Barcelona next Saturday in the El Clásico match, to decide the top spot in the standings.
With Real Madrid’s loss to Lille in the last round of the Champions League, Real Madrid’s streak of not losing in the European Championship stopped at 36 consecutive matches, which also witnessed it achieving 14 consecutive victories.
“We must learn from our mistakes and improve, because we have a lot of matches ahead,” Ancelotti said.
Borussia Dortmund enters the match in high spirits, especially since it is at the top of the standings after achieving full marks in the first two matches by defeating Club Brugge 3-0 and Celtic 7-1.
If Dortmund was able to show the same ferocity that it showed in the Celtic match, it might be able to achieve victory over Real Madrid in its home and avenge its defeat in the final of the last edition of the competition.
With Dortmund’s efforts to take revenge on Real Madrid, the team aims to avoid falling into a negative number, as Dortmund failed in the last seven visits to the Bernabeu Stadium to achieve victory, losing five matches and drawing two matches.
Also on the same day, the Italian team Juventus will aim to continue its victories in the European Championship and achieve its third victory in a row, when it faces the German team Stuttgart.
The Stuttgart team is seeking to achieve its first victory in the current edition of the tournament, as the team was satisfied with achieving one point collected from a draw with Sparta Prague in the Czech Republic in the last round, noting that it lost the first round match against Real Madrid.
On the other hand, Juventus seeks to continue its European victories after winning the first and second rounds over PSV Eindhoven 3/1 and Leipzig 3/2.
Paris Saint-Germain is also seeking to regain its balance in the tournament when it faces the Dutch team Eindhoven.
Saint-Germain lost in the last round to Arsenal with two clean goals, and is seeking to win the match with Eindhoven to add three more points to the one it gained through its first-round victory over Girona, Spain, with a clean goal.
On the other hand, the Dutch team PSV Eindhoven will search for its first victory after losing to Juventus and tying in the last round against Portuguese Sporting Lisbon 1-1.
In the rest of the matches that will be held on Tuesday, the Italian Milan will meet the Belgian Club Brugge, the French Monaco will meet the Serbian Crvena Zvidad, and the English Arsenal will meet the Ukrainian Shakhtar Donetsk.
Aston Villa of England also plays with Bologna in Italy, Sturm Graz of Austria with Sporting Lisbon in Portugal, and Girona in Spain with Slovan Bratislava in Slovakia.