The Real Madrid He will play his seventh preseason match this Sunday, in which he will face Rome at the Olympic Stadium (8:00 pm; Realmadrid TV). The white team has won two victories in its last two visits to the Italian team. In the most recent precedent, on the 5th day of the Group Phase of the past Champions, Real Madrid won by 0-2 with so many of Gareth Bale Y Lucas Vázquez.

Zidane Debut

Three seasons before, the Olympic hosted the penultimate Roma-Real Madrid to date, in a meeting that marked the debut of Zinedine Zidane as a coach in the Champions League. This duel, corresponding to the first leg of the round of 16 2015/16, ended with the same result, starting a path that would conclude with the conquest of the Eleventh.

In addition, the French coach also enjoyed his first minutes as a player in Champions with the shirt of Real Madrid in front of Rome, in a Group Phase match of the 2001/02 season in the Santiago Bernabeu.

5 victories in 6 visits to Rome

A few months earlier, on the first day of that Group Phase, there was the first official precedent between both teams in the Olympic. The 1-2 win with goals from Figo Y Guti it was the first step in the journey towards Ninth and the first of the five wins in six displacements of the Real Madrid in front of Rome in its stadium.