Kylian Mbappé will play his first Champions League match with Real Madrid this Tuesday against Stuttgart (this Tuesday evening at 9 p.m.). Follow the pre-match live.
Winner of its fifteenth Champions League last June after its success in the final at Wembley against Borussia Dortmund (2-0), Real Madrid is once again putting its crown on the line this season in the most prestigious of European competitions. The Madrid club begins its long road to a sixteenth C1 title against Stuttgart, this Tuesday at 9 p.m. at the Santiago-Bernabeu stadium. As a reminder, with the new format of the competition, each club will have to play eight matches during the group stage (four at home and four away) and finish among the top eight (out of 36 clubs involved) to qualify directly for the round of 16. Every match now counts and Real Madrid has no room for error against the Germans for its entry into the competition.
Already four goals for Mbappé
This meeting between Real Madrid and Stuttgart will be special for Kylian Mbappé. This will be his first Champions League match in his new Merengue jersey, after his grand arrival in Madrid during the summer after the end of his contract with Paris Saint-Germain. The French striker had a mixed start with Real, even though he scored four times in his first six games (including two penalties). The French international notably helped the Madrid team win on the pitch of Real Sociedad last Saturday (2-0), by scoring his third goal of the season in La Liga from the penalty spot. Thirteenth highest scorer in the history of the C1 (with 48 goals), Mbappé will certainly be keen to make a success of his debut in the competition with a club as prestigious as real Madrid.
Real decimated
Carlo Ancelotti still seems to be groping over how to integrate Kylian Mbappé into his team. Real Madrid’s Italian coach Madrid has chosen for the moment to start the French striker in the axis of the attack as number 9, with more or less success in recent weeks. Deprived of many players (Alaba, Camavinga, Ceballos and Brahim Diaz are forfeits)Ancelotti will not have much choice this Tuesday evening when it comes to marking eleven players on the match sheet against Stuttgart. Real Madrid’s probable eleven : Courtois – Carvajal, Rüdiger, Militao, F. Mendy – Valverde, Tchouaméni, Bellingham – Rodrygo, Mbappé, Vinicius. On the Stut sidetgart, Olympic silver medallist Enzo Millot is expected to start alongside Undav, in the centre of the German attack. A key player in Stuttgart’s great season last year, the strikert Franco-Guinean Serhou Guirassy has since left for Borussia Dortmund in the summer and was replaced by Undav. Stuttgart’s probable starting eleven: Nübel – Stenzel, Chase, Chabot, Mittelstädt – Leweling, Kazazor, Stiller, Fuhrich – Millot, Undav.
The Spanish are the big favourites
This match between Real Madrid and Stuttgart will not be broadcast in the clear on French television since it will only be visible on Canal+ Foot, for which it is imperative to take out a subscription. To follow this match between Real and Stuttgart on the Internet, you must go to the Canal+ website, to be able to watch the match. For this Champions League match, Real Madrid is given as favorite by the various sports betting sites for the first match in its history against Stuttgart. The odds for a Merengue victory range between 1.2 and 1.5 while that of a victory of the Germans in Madrid is between 8 and 10. The odds for a draw are around 6.