Real Madrid vs Juventus: UEFA Champions League – teams, start and lineups

Who: Real Madrid vs Juventus
What: UEFA Champions League
Where: Bernabeu Stadium successful Madrid, Spain
When: Wednesday, October 22 astatine 9pm (19:00 GMT)
How to follow: We’ll person each the build-up connected Al Jazeera Sport from 6pm (16:00 GMT) earlier our unrecorded substance commentary streams.

La Liga leaders Real Madrid big Italy’s Juventus astatine the Bernabeu Stadium, with some sides looking to amended their UEFA Champions League (UCL) ladder presumption successful the Matchday 3 showdown.

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Real, who are 1 of conscionable six unbeaten sides remaining successful the UCL and beryllium 2nd connected the ladder down Bayern Munich, would privation thing little than 3 points against Juventus earlier their adjacent fixture against English champions Liverpool connected November 4.

Juventus are languishing successful 23rd presumption successful the radical signifier standings – adjacent the elimination portion – with lone 2 draws truthful acold against Borussia Dortmund and Villarreal. They desperately request a triumph against Los Blancos connected Wednesday to support gait with the leaders.

Here is each to cognize earlier their high-stakes encounter:

How did Real Madrid and Juventus fare successful their home leagues this past weekend?

Kylian Mbappe extended his goalscoring streak to 11 consecutive games to assistance Real Madrid reclaim apical spot successful La Liga with a 1-0 triumph astatine nine-man Getafe connected Sunday.

After rivals Barcelona concisely displaced Real with a constrictive triumph implicit Girona connected Saturday, Xabi Alonso’s broadside restored their two-point vantage earlier adjacent weekend’s Clasico.

Juventus mislaid 2-0 astatine Como successful Serie A connected Sunday, different disappointing effect aft 5 successive draws successful each competitions for Igor Tudor’s side.

Juve slumped to seventh presumption successful the standings, 4 points down leaders AC Milan.

Juventus guardant Kenan Yildiz reacts aft a Como extremity successful their Serie A fixture astatine Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia, Como, Italy, connected October 19, 2025 [Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters]

How galore times person Real and Juventus won the UEFA Champions League?

Real Madrid person won the UEFA Champions League 15 times, making them the astir palmy squad successful history. They astir precocious won the rubric 2 years ago, successful the 2023-24 season, beating German broadside Borussia Dortmund 2-0.

Juventus person won the trophy twice. Their astir caller rubric was successful 1996 against the Dutch broadside Ajax. Juve did marque the UCL last arsenic precocious arsenic 2017, losing 4-1 to Real Madrid.

What happened the past clip Real Madrid played Juventus?

The 2 mega clubs past played connected July 2 astatine the FIFA Club World Cup successful the United States.

Real won the round-of-16 showdown 1-0, edging Juventus successful a choky matter to scope the quarterfinals acknowledgment to a second-half onslaught from Gonzalo Garcia.

The past clip Real and Juventus clashed successful the Champions League was connected April 11, 2018, erstwhile Cristiano Ronaldo’s melodramatic 98th-minute punishment sent Madrid done (4-3 connected aggregate) to their eighth consecutive UCL semifinal.

Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo scores the winning extremity against Juventus from a punishment successful their UEFA Champions League quarterfinal successful Madrid, Spain, connected April 11, 2018 [Susana Vera/Reuters]

Real Madrid squad news

Alonso volition proceed to beryllium without respective starting-calibre players heading into Wednesday’s contention against Juventus.

Defender Dean Huijsen, who suffered a micro-tear successful his near calf musculus during planetary work for Spain successful aboriginal October, is retired of the squad. Initially diagnosed arsenic a strain, the wounded present threatens his availability for the Clasico fixture against Barcelona connected October 26.

Austrian planetary David Alaba limped disconnected during Sunday’s crippled against Getafe with a calf issue, and the 33-year-old is simply a game-time decision. If helium is unavailable, past Raul Asencio would apt determination into the starting XI.

The broadside is further weakened by the ongoing lack of 4 different defenders, arsenic Dani Carvajal, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Antonio Rudiger and Ferland Mendy are each sidelined.

Juventus squad news

Coach Tudor volition beryllium without centre backmost Gleison Bremer arsenic helium recovers from arthroscopic genu surgery, with the Brazilian expected to beryllium retired until mid-November.

Also missing from the defence enactment is near backmost Juan Cabal, who continues to rehabilitate a thigh wounded suffered successful Juve’s 2-2 gully against Villarreal successful the Champions League connected October 1.

Winger Edon Zhegrova is questionable to play against Real Madrid aft helium reinjured his hip.

It is unclear which enactment Tudor volition deploy against Real aft helium ditched his preferred 3-4-2-1 setup during their upset nonaccomplishment to Como connected Sunday.

Brazilian planetary Bremer, the stalwart of the Juventus antiaircraft line, volition beryllium unavailable for enactment against Real Madrid arsenic helium continues to retrieve from genu country [File: Daniele Badolato/Juventus FC via Getty Images]

Real Madrid’s predicted starting lineup

Thibaut Courtois (goalkeeper); Fede Valverde, Eder Militao, Raul Asencio, Alvaro Carreras; Aurelien Tchouameni, Eduardo Camavinga, Franco Mastantuono; Jude Bellingham, Rodrygo, Kylian Mbappe

Juventus’ predicted starting lineup

Michele Di Gregorio (goalkeeper); Pierre Kalulu, Daniele Rugani, Lloyd Kelly, Andrea Cambiaso; Khephren Thuram, Manuel Locatelli, Teun Koopmeiners; Francisco Conceicao, Jonathan David, Kenan Yildiz

Head-to-head

Real Madrid and Juventus person faced each different 21 times successful the Champions League, with Los Blancos having the flimsy vantage successful full victories.

• Previous meetings: 21
• Real Madrid wins: 10
• Draws: 2
• Juventus wins: 9

Form guide:

Real Madrid: W-L-W-W-W (All competitions, astir caller effect last)

Juventus: D-D-D-D-L

Real Madrid’s Brazilian guardant Vinicius Junior volition beryllium hoping to people his archetypal extremity of the 2025-26 UEFA Champions League play against Juventus astatine the Bernabeu connected Wednesday [File: Thomas Coex/AFP]