Madrid reaches a record in the Champions League group stage

For the Real Madrid, the phases of groups are not an able obstacle to brake his aim, year after year, to win the UEFA Champions League. The Tuesday, the whites added his classification number 31 in this instance in equal number of opportunities, absolute record in the tournament for all the teams with a minimum of two participations. The one of the 2022-23 will be remembered, probably, as one of the simplest in the last years.

And it is that the luck went back to smile him in the draw to the champions defenders in this edition of the League of Champions. The 'merengues' remained situated in the Group F beside the RB Leipzig, the Celtic of Glasgow and the Shakhtar Donetsk. For the moment, the Ukrainians have been the only able to take out him points in four parties with a 1-1 in Poland that was to seconds to turn into the first defeat of the season for the ones of Carlo Ancelotti.

Antonio Rüdiger attained cabecear a centre of Toni Kroos in the 90+5' to save the tie after a very toneless party of the Madrid. The central German finish with a deep cut in the face that deserved 20 stitchs and the Wednesday will practise him proofs for descartar a possible fracture, after crashing with the goalkeeper Anatoli Trubin in the action of the goal of the tie.

In the next day, the whites will visit to a Leipzig that, by moments, complicated them in Santiago Bernabéu in the party that finish 2-0 the past 14 September. A triumph of the Madrid in the date 5 will ensure them the leadership by second consecutive edition, key factor the past season to trace back the eliminatory of eighth of final in front of Paris Saint-Germain (3-2 global). In fact, the ones of Ancelotti closed all his eliminatory home the past season, with traced back epics.

The Madrid always advances in phases of groups

Teams with fewer eliminations in phases of group of #UCL (minimum of 10 phases of group contested):

0 of 31: Real Madrid
1 of 29*: Bayern
1 of 20*: Chelsea
2 of 13: Manchester City
2 of 13*: Athletic
3 of 16*: Liverpool
3 of 16*: PSG

[*] Still no computed the present season.

— MisterChip (Alexis) (@2010MisterChip) October 11, 2022

Although the 'White House' had problems to classify in the editions of 2017, 2018 and 2020 (finish second), in 31 opportunities add full of classifications. The Madrid never has fallen in a phase of groups and, at least by a year more, his record will follow intact. Now, only it subtracts them ensure the leadership in a group in which Shakhtar and Leipzig will struggle to the end by the second place.