IFFFHS CONTINENTAL STATS : REAL MADRID - MANCHESTER CITY
Picture : Erling Haaland has scored in 6 consecutive Champions League starts for the second time in his career (he had such run also with Borussia Dortmund).
UCL biggest clash in league phase: highlights
Real Madrid vs Manchester City 1-2
*It’s Real Madrid’s 2nd consecutive defeat at the Bernabéu (also vs Celta) after starting the season with 8 home wins.
*Real Madrid and Manchester City have played each other for the 11th time in the 2020s.
*Of 10 Spanish-English clashes in this Champions League season, English teams won 9.
The only Spanish victory (Newcastle vs Barcelona 1-2) came with two goals from an English player (Marcus Rashford).
Teams from all other countries beat Spanish teams only 4 times over this period (Germany 2, Cyprus and Denmark 1 each).
*Only for the second time in the club history, Real Madrid have scored first but gone in behind at half-time of a European Cup/Champions League game (after March 1991 vs Spartak Moscow).
*It’s Real Madrid's 4th home defeat in the Champions League after being overtaken. The precedents:
21/10/2009 vs Milan (2-3),
10/03/2015 vs Schalke (3-4),
26/02/2020 vs Manchester City (1-2).
*Real Madrid’s only one shot on target in this match is their lowest tally in a Champions League match at the Bernabéu Stadium.
*Pep Guardiola is now the coach with most European Cup wins against Real Madrid at the Bernabéu (3).
Apart from him, only Ottmar Hitzfeld did so in multiple cases (2).
*Guardiola has now won 14 of his 28 matches against Real Madrid in all competitions. Only two coaches did it more times in history: Helenio Herrera (22) and Luis Aragonés (16).
*Guardiola is also the coach with the most wins against Real Madrid at the Bernabéu in all competitions – 7 (5 with Barcelona and 2 with Manchester City).
Helenio Herrera has 5 such wins (1 with Atlético Madrid, 2 with Sevilla, 1 with Barcelona, 1 with Inter).
*Erling Haaland has scored in 6 consecutive Champions League starts for the second time in his career (he had such run also with Borussia Dortmund).
*Haaland already has 34 goals for club and country in 2025-26. This is the highest mark for a player from top 5 European leagues at this point in the season since Cristiano Ronaldo in 2013-14 (also 34).
*Rodrygo has finally ended his goal drought with Real Madrid in all competitions: a run that had lasted 32 games (in which he had 38 shots) and 1,432 minutes.
His previous goal also came in the Champions League and at the Bernabéu: against Atlético Madrid on 4 March.
This marks the end of the worst scoring drought for a Real Madrid striker since 2006. Back then, Raúl went 1,618 minutes without a goal.
*At the same time, Rodrygo has scored his 5th goal against Josep Guardiola in the Champions League: only Lionel Messi and Karim Benzema have scored more (7 each), and Kylian Mbappé also 5.