Real Madrid have won all four of their UEFA Champions League games against Internazionale this century – indeed, they are the opponent that Inter have faced the most times in major European competition this century without managing a victory.

Internazionale have lost and failed to score in each of their last three UEFA Champions League games against Real Madrid. Only against Barcelona, between 2003 and 2009, have they failed to score in four consecutive European Cup/Champions League games against an opponent.

Real Madrid manager José Mourinho will come up against his former team Internazionale, who he won the UEFA Champions League with in 2010 at the Bernabéu (2-0 v Bayern Munich). Current Inter manager Christian Chivu was also in Mourinho’s starting XI for that 2010 triumph.

Internazionale lost five of their last six UEFA Champions League matches in 2025-26 (W1), as many defeats as across their prior 39 games in the competition combined (W25 D9).

José Mourinho returned to Real Madrid as manager this summer – he has managed the fifth-most matches in UEFA Champions League history since 1992-93 (160), with 36 of those with Real Madrid between 2010 and 2013, winning 24 (66.7%). Only Carlo Ancelotti (68.8%) has a better win ratio with the club, among managers with 10+ UCL games in charge of them.

Under the returning José Mourinho, Real Madrid have scored in 97% of their UEFA Champions League matches (35/36). This is the highest percentage by any team with 20+ matches under a specific manager in the competition.

If Kylian Mbappé scores in this game, he will equal Raúl (71) as the joint-fifth top goalscorer in European Cup/UEFA Champions League history. The Frenchman has netted 70 goals in 98 games in the Champions League to date, including 22 in 25 games for current club Real Madrid.

In the last five seasons, the two players involved in the most UEFA Champions League goals are current Real Madrid duo Kylian Mbappé (43 goals, 9 assists) and Vinícius Júnior (30 goals, 22 assists), with the latter’s 22 assists eight more than any other player since 2021-22.

Of midfielders with 300+ minutes played in the UEFA Champions League in 2025-26, Rodri (13.2) was the only player who averaged more line-breaking passes in the final third per 90 than Internazionale’s Hakan Çalhanoglu (9.3).

Internazionale now have three different English players in their ranks: John Stones, Djed Spence and Curtis Jones. Only once previously has a non-British team started a UEFA Champions League game with three Englishmen in their starting XI, with that also being by a Milan side (Tomori, Loftus-Cheek and Abraham for rivals Milan in October 2024, v Bayer Leverkusen).