On Wednesday, the UEFA Champions League will continue with the quarterfinal matches. An intriguing clash awaits at the "Santiago Bernabeu" stadium between Madrid's "Real" and Napoli's footballers. For your attention - historical facts and statistics of their past encounters. The Napoli team has already felt the strength of Madrid's "Real" team - in the 1987-88 season, the royal club eliminated the Italian team in the first round of the UEFA Cup by defeating them 2-0 in the first match, while the return match ended in a draw. As history shows, matches with Italian clubs have not been very successful for the Madrid "Real" club - of the last eight UEFA Cup/Champions League matches, "Real" has been eliminated seven times. However, last season the "whites" ended this streak of failures and in the quarterfinals, they defeated "Roma" with a combined score of 4-0. "Real" has reached a Champions League record - for 20 consecutive seasons they have advanced from the group stage and for the past seven years have played in the semifinals of the tournament. "Napoli" for the first time in the season secured the top spot in the group stage of the Champions League after finishing second in the 2011-12 season and third in the 2013-14 season. Furthermore, "Napoli" has yet to reach the quarterfinals. Since the 2011-12 season, Madrid's "Real" has won 33 out of 39 matches played at the "Santiago Bernabeu" stadium - four draws and two losses. The losses were suffered against "Barcelona" (2011) and Gelsenkirchen's "Schalke" clubs (2015). Zinedine Zidane's coached Spanish capital team has also achieved another tournament record - the "whites" have scored at least one goal in their own field for 33 consecutive matches. "Barcelona" was the last team in 2011 that managed not to concede any goals against "Real" in their own stadium. "Napoli" has kept a clean sheet in Champions League away matches only once in the last ten matches. Former club of Diego Maradona will surely have an advantage before the return match, as "Napoli" has not yet experienced any setbacks in their own field this season - two wins and two draws.
