Club - Atlético Madrid: the Club Facts

With a six out of six, we managed to start our 10th Champions League campaign on a dream note. On Tuesday night, Atlético Madrid will visit Jan Breydel. Find out all the facts about our CL campaign and the opponent below.

Our campaign

On the previous matchday we scored a historic 0-4 victory at FC Porto. The Bruges goals came from Jutglà, Sowah, Skov Olsen & Nusa. The latter thus became the youngest player ever to score on his Champions League debut. In addition, he also became the second youngest ever goal scorer in the history of the Champions League. Only Ansu Fati (FC Barcelona) was ahead of him in that regard.

In the past two games of this campaign, Simon Mignolet managed to keep his nets clean twice. We already scored 5 goals ourselves, bringing the total to +5.

Club is playing in the UEFA Champions League group stage for the 5th consecutive season. That is a new Belgian record.

The opponent

Alongside FC Barcelona and Real Madrid, Atlético Madrid has been known as one of the top clubs in Spain for many years. They have already won the Spanish Priméra Division eleven times & the Copa Del Rey ten times. European, they already managed to win the Europa League 3 times and could also crown themselves UEFA Super Cup winners three times. Last year, the quarterfinals of the Champions League were the end station after Manchester City eliminated them.

Atlético Madrid has already played the final of the Champions League twice, but there Real Madrid proved the strongest twice. The last time dates back to the 2015-2016 season.

In their own league last season, Atlético finished 3rd after city rival Real Madrid (1st) & FC Barcelona (2nd).

With the visit of Atlético, 2 compatriots also visit Jan Breydel. Axel Witsel & Yannick Carrasco are both active at the Madrid top club. In addition, a lot of famous names such as Antoine Griezmann, Jan Oblak, Alvaro Morata, Joao Félix.... are active at our Tuesday opponent.

On the previous match day, Atlético lost 2-0 on a visit to Bayer Leverkusen. On matchday 1, they won at home against FC Porto, which now puts them in shared second place in the standings with three points.

The dress rehearsal for Atlético was already successful. Last Saturday they won 0-2 at the Sevilla field. Marcos Llorente and Alvaro Morata provided the Madrid goals.