Season so far

UEFA Champions League

Key, Inter Milan v Kairat
League position, Inter Milan 4th, Kairat 34thTotal points, Inter Milan 9, Kairat 1

Goals scored

Inter Milan 9Kairat 1

Form guide

All competitions

Inter Milan won
v Hellas Verona
1
2
Serie A
Kairat draw
v Astana
1
1
Premier League
Inter Milan won
v Fiorentina
3
0
Serie A
Kairat draw
v Pafos
0
0
UEFA Champions League
Inter Milan lose
v Napoli
3
1
Serie A
Kairat won
v Kyzyl-Zhar
0
1
Premier League
Inter Milan won
v Union Saint-Gilloise
0
4
UEFA Champions League
Kairat won
v Zhetysu
5
0
Premier League
Inter Milan won
v Roma
0
1
Serie A
Kairat lose
v Real Madrid
0
5
UEFA Champions League

Match Facts

  • This will be Internazionale’s first meeting with Kairat, as well as the first ever between sides from Italy and Kazakhstan in any European competition.

  • Internazionale have won nine of their last 10 UEFA Champions League games when meeting an opponent for the first time, with the exception being their 5-0 defeat to PSG in last season’s final.

  • Internazionale have won nine of their last 10 UEFA Champions League group stage games without conceding (0-1 v Bayern Leverkusen on 2024-25 MD6 the exception), and are the only team to keep 10 clean sheets in group/league phase games since the start of last season.

  • Kairat remain winless across their first three UEFA Champions League games (D1 L2), scoring just once and conceding nine times – the only teams to score one or fewer and concede more than 10 goals across their first four matches in the competition are Levski Sofia in 2006 (1F 13A), MSK Zilina in 2010 (1F 15A) and FC Nordsjælland in 2012 (1F 11A).

  • Internazionale have won each of their last three UEFA Champions League games without conceding, scoring 2+ goals in each win – only three teams have ever won four straight matches to nil while also scoring more than once each time: Bayern Munich in 2012-13, Borussia Dortmund in 2014-15 and PSG in 2017-18 (Arsenal could also do so on MD4).

  • On MD3, Kairat’s opponents Pafos received a fourth minute red card but the game still finished 0-0 – it was the longest a side has played against 10-men in the competition without scoring. The Kazakh club have recorded the worst conversion rate in the UEFA Champions League this season (2.4% - 42 shots, 1 goal).  

  • Internazionale’s 4-0 win at Union Saint-Gilloise on MD3 was their joint-biggest victory in the UEFA Champions League – their nine goals this season is their most through three games in an edition of the competition since 2010-11 when they were the holders (10). 

  • Internazionale manager Cristian Chivu is aiming to be the first manager to win each of their first four UEFA Champions League games since Hansi Flick in 2020, and the first ever to do so without conceding.   

  • Internazionale’s Lautaro Martínez has scored 24 goals in the UEFA Champions League and the only Argentinian players with more in the competition are Lionel Messi (129), Sergio Agüero (41) and Hernán Crespo (25). He has scored 11 goals in his last 10, with no player scoring more times in major European competition this calendar year (Harry Kane also 11).     

  • Making five saves against Pafos on MD3, Kairat’s Temirlan Anarbekov (22y 7d) become the fourth youngest goalkeeper to keep a clean sheet on their UEFA Champions League debut across the last 20 seasons, after Atlético de Madrid’s Sergio Asenjo in September 2009 (20y 79d), Sturm Graz’s Daniil Khudyakov in November 2024 (20y 323d) and Porto’s Diogo Costa in December 2020 (21y 81d).