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Real Madrid have won all five of their games against Marseille in European competition. Marseille is now the opponent they have beaten the most times in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League while maintaining a 100 percent record (also 4/4 v APOEL Nicosia and Zürich).
Only against FC Porto (5) have Marseille suffered the same defeats in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League as they have against Real Madrid (5). Indeed, Los Blancos are the opponent they’ve faced most often across the two competitions, while losing every time (5/5).
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This is the 27th time that Real Madrid have begun a European Cup/UEFA Champions League campaign with a home match, while they’ve only been beaten on one of the 27 occasions (W24 D2): a 3-2 defeat against Shakhtar Donetsk in 2020-21.
Marseille have faced Real Madrid in their opening game of a UEFA Champions League game once previously, doing so in September 2003 at the Santiago Bernabéu. Didier Drogba opened the scoring for the French side on that occasion, but they would go on to lose 4-2.
Real Madrid have had 15 shots on target in their first Champions League match with Xabi Alonso on the bench, their highest tally in a manager’s Champions League debut since the 2003–04 season.
Kylian Mbappé has scored 50 goals in 64 matches for Real Madrid in all competitions, becoming the fastest player to reach 50 goals for the Whites since Cristiano Ronaldo in November 2010 (51 goals in 54 appearances).
Real Madrid had 11 shots on target in the first 45 minutes against Marseille, their most in the first half of a Champions League game since at least 2003/04.
Kylian Mbappé has now scored 56 goals in 88 Champions League matches, equalling Ruud van Nistelrooij (56 goals in 73 appearances) as the seventh highest scorer in the competition’s history.
Franco Mastantuono has become the youngest player to start a UEFA Champions League match for Real Madrid, at just 18 years and 33 days old, beating Endrick’s previous record set in November 2024 at 18 years and 73 days.
Xabi Alonso becomes the third individual to have both managed and played for Real Madrid in the UEFA Champions League since 1992-93 (47 apps), after Zinedine Zidane (45 apps, 53 games as manager) and Santiago Solari (48 apps, five games as manager).
