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Match details
- Competition: UEFA Champions League · League phase · Matchday 3
- Date and time: Wednesday, 21 October 2026 · 21:00 (Bernabéu time) · 15:00 in Florida
- Stadium: Santiago Bernabéu
- Referee: to be confirmed (UEFA announces it in the 48 hours before the match)
- Where to watch: in the US, Paramount+; in Spain, Movistar Liga de Campeones and Orange TV
The preview
A perfect night at the Bernabéu: Madrid have just beaten Sevilla 4-1 in LaLiga — goals from Güler, a Mbappé brace (one from the penalty spot) and Diomandé, with Manu Bueno scoring Sevilla’s goal — and now turn their focus to Europe. There was also a welcome return: Militão came on for Valverde in the closing minutes.
Madrid arrive with a perfect record in Europe: a 2-1 win over Inter at the Bernabéu on the opening night and a 3-4 comeback win in Rome on 14 October, in a match that had everything. Six points from six, and the feeling that this team rises to the occasion on Champions League nights.
The big news is that Vinícius CAN play: his four-match ban is for LaLiga only (Sevilla, El Clásico, Racing and Valencia), so he is available in the Champions League, as he already was in Rome. And there is a special reunion: Yan Diomande, signed this summer from RB Leipzig themselves, faces his former club after recording 1 goal and 1 assist in his first matches in white.
Leipzig arrive wounded, and they are a team of extremes: in the space of two weeks they have beaten Eintracht 6-0 and lost 6-1 away to Bayern last Saturday, with a Luis Díaz hat-trick. In the Champions League they have 3 points: a 4-1 defeat away to Como and a 1-0 win over PSV thanks to a Brajan Gruda goal. Their coach, Martín Demichelis, has a curious history with Madrid: as a player he was knocked out three times by Los Blancos in the Champions League with Bayern, and as a coach he won his only meeting with Madrid, a 2-1 with Mallorca last season.
The head-to-head is short but favours Madrid: four meetings, with a 2-0 and a 1-1 at the Bernabéu and one win each in Leipzig (3-2 to them in the 2022 group stage and 0-1 to Madrid in the 2023/24 round of 16, which Madrid won).
Probable XI (press, unconfirmed): Courtois; Trent Alexander-Arnold, Konaté, Rüdiger, Álvaro Carreras; Tchouaméni, Valverde; Güler, Bellingham, Vinícius; Mbappé. Vinícius’s return restores the threat down the left; managing the workload, with El Clásico on Sunday on the horizon, is the night’s other big decision.
The key: this is the hinge match of the big week (Sevilla, Leipzig and El Clásico in eight days). Leipzig press high and live on transitions, but they arrive hurt by the 6-1 in Munich: an early goal at the Bernabéu could turn their wound into a very long night.
Your prediction? Leave it in the comments: do Madrid keep their perfect European run going, or do Leipzig pull off a shock?
Minute by minute
The play-by-play commentary is on the LIVE post linked above.
Post-match
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