Brest have already lost to Barcelona in this season’s UEFA Champions League, with the last team to lose to both Real Madrid and Barça in their debut campaign in the competition being Leeds United in 2000-01.

Real Madrid have lost exactly half of their 14 away games against French opposition in the UEFA Champions League (W5 D2 L7), only posting a higher away loss rate versus Russian opponents in the competition (57% - P7 W2 D1 L4).

Real Madrid have only lost three of their last 29 games when facing a side for the first time in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League (W23 D3), although one of those did come this season, also away from home against a French opponent (0-1 v Lille in October).

Among teams to have played 50+ games in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League, Real Madrid are the club with the highest all-time win percentage (59.9% - 296 wins in 494 games).

Brest will be the 58th different team Carlo Ancelotti has faced in the UEFA Champions League, the most of any side. He has beaten 53 of the 57 teams he’s faced, also an outright high of any manager, although one of the four sides he hasn’t beaten is French club Lille in three attempts (D1 L2).

Real Madrid have kept just three clean sheets in their last 18 away UEFA Champions League matches, having kept five in their previous six away games beforehand.

After going unbeaten in their first four matches in the UEFA Champions League this season (W3 D1), Brest have since lost two of their last three (W1), while failing to score in both defeats – 0-3 v Barcelona on MD5 and 0-2 v Shakhtar Donetsk on MD7 last time out.

Since the start of the 2021-22 campaign, Vinícius Júnior has been directly involved in 40 goals in 41 appearances for Real Madrid in the UEFA Champions League (24 goals, 16 assists); the most of any player in the competition in this period.

Kylian Mbappé has only faced one French side in the UEFA Champions League, playing against Lille on MD2 this season for Real Madrid and failing to score. The only other nation’s clubs he has faced and not scored against are Russian teams (two games vs. CSKA Moscow), although he has scored nine goals in 10 games against Brest in all competitions.

Abdallah Sima has scored 30% of Brest’s goals in the UEFA Champions League this season (3/10). However, he hasn’t netted in the competition since last October (v RB Salzburg), with his three goals this term all coming within the first two matchdays.