UEFA Champions League won't be short of beautiful and intriguing football on Tuesday evening.
Arguably the most interesting match will take place at the "Santiago Bernabeu" stadium, where the steadily improving Madrid "Real" club will host the Paris "Saint-Germain" footballers.
The "white" team, who started the season poorly, suffered a crushing defeat in their first match against PSG, losing 3-0 on their home turf.
"Real" vented their anger in their last matches on the Istanbul "Galatasaray" team. These matches are expected to be attacking football from both sides.
The most interesting match facts - before your eyes:
The PSG team has demonstrated impressive statistics in the Champions League season - four victories out of as many possible, no goals conceded, and ten goals scored.
Madrid "Real" returned to the path of victories after two unsuccessful rounds by twice defeating "Galatasaray." In the last match, the "white" team "conceded" six goals to their opponents.
In the last ten matches in all tournaments, PSG has won nine times and lost only once, while "Real" has achieved six wins, played three draws, and also lost to their opponents in one match.
PSG has already secured a spot in the round of 16. In order to secure the first place in their group, they just need not to lose in the match in Madrid.
Zinedine Zidane's army cannot yet feel relaxed about their qualification to the round of 16, but everything could be decided by the matches between "Club Brugge" and "Galatasaray," where "madridistas" would be pleased with a draw or a Turkish victory.
PSG's victory in this season was the first in the last five meetings in the Champions League between the two teams. Until then, "Real" had defeated Parisians three times and played to a draw once.
The last matches between these two teams at the "Santiago Bernabeu" stadium ended with a 3-1 victory for "Real." In the fight for a place in the quarterfinals in 2018, Marcelo and Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored twice, led the "white" team to victory.
PSG has only won once in their entire history away against "Real." This happened in 1994, when George Weah's only goal led the Parisians to victory in the first leg of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup quarterfinals.
Returning to the "Santiago Bernabeu" stadium will be familiar faces for the Madrid crowd - Angel Di Maria, Keylor Navas, and Pablo Sarabia.
Angel Di Maria, one of the heroes of "La Decima," scored two goals for Madrid "Real" in their first match, while the three-time consecutive Champions League winner Keylor Navas kept the opposing team's net "dry."
PSG's Mauro Icardi, who is increasingly fitting into the team, scored winning goals in three of the last four matches.
Karim Benzema, who has already scored 12 goals this season in all tournaments, scored the first goals in the last two "Real" matches, including the weekend clash with "Real Sociedad."
