Overview
- Kick-off is 8:00pm GMT at the Santiago Bernabéu, with live UK coverage on TNT Sports and streaming on discovery+.
- Group standings raise the stakes for automatic last‑16 qualification, with Real Madrid fifth on 12 points and Manchester City ninth on 10.
- Real face a defensive crisis as Éder Militão is ruled out and Dani Carvajal, Ferland Mendy and Trent Alexander‑Arnold remain sidelined, with David Alaba and Dean Huijsen late doubts.
- Kylian Mbappé’s status is a late concern after training separately with a left‑leg issue, though he enters as Madrid’s leading scorer in this Champions League campaign.
- City travel without midfielders Rodri and Mateo Kovačić and have John Stones as a doubt, as Bernardo Silva cautions that form counts for little at the Bernabéu in the clubs’ 15th Champions League meeting since 2012.