Real Madrid vs. Inter Milan: Los Blancos could receive major boost for Champions League opener

By Matt Law | 07 Sep 2026 19:38, Last updated: 07 Sep 2026 19:40

Real Madrid could person cardinal midfielder Aurelien Tchouameni disposable for Tuesday's Champions League contention with Inter Milan.

Tchouameni is yet to diagnostic for Real Madrid this play owed to a thigh issue, again missing retired against Real Betis astatine the extremity of past week.

However, according to AS, determination is simply a accidental that the midfielder volition beryllium successful the squad for Real Madrid's Champions League contention with Inter.

A commencement is seen arsenic astir intolerable fixed his deficiency of enactment this season, but minutes disconnected the seat are seemingly apt owed to his recovery.

Tchouameni has present trained connected Sunday and Monday, and helium is escaped from the symptom which meant that helium was incapable to diagnostic aboriginal successful the campaign.

Real Madrid vs. Inter: Tchouameni winning conflict to beryllium acceptable for Champions League contest

Arda Guler, Bernardo Silva and Eduardo Camavinga are each suspended for the Inter fixture owed to cards that they picked up during their past matches of the 2025-26 Champions League.

Jude Bellingham is expected to diagnostic successful the mediate of the midfield alongside Federico Valverde successful the European fixture with the Italian giants.

Real Madrid volition beryllium looking to bounce backmost from their 1-0 decision to Real Betis successful La Liga erstwhile they instrumentality to the tract successful beforehand of their ain fans.

"I privation to win. I could archer you I privation to play well, but I don’t privation to play good similar we did against Betis and lose; I privation to win," Real Madrid caput manager Jose Mourinho told reporters.

"We are successful a signifier wherever we play 8 matches, and the extremity is to qualify, and I judge we will. But I privation to deliberation astir this lucifer arsenic a unsocial crippled and not that we volition person 7 more. I privation to win.

Mourinho hopeless for triumph successful Champions League opener

“I’ve seen the players arsenic I similar to spot them - exhausted successful the locker country successful Seville aft the match, reasonably recovered successful Sunday’s training, and contiguous perfectly normal.

"After analysing the crippled we played, we are progressively convinced that we played a bully match, we played arsenic a team, and the goals we missed were an anomaly.

"We are fine. Obviously, we person known issues for tomorrow’s match, but that’s it. We are going to play, compete, and purpose to win.

“At the Bernabeu, I’ve won a Champions League, and I’ve mislaid a semi-final connected penalties. I’ve experienced the champion and the worst successful this stadium, but I’m not reasoning astir that, neither the positives nor the negatives.

"I’m focused connected being the manager of Real Madrid and connected tomorrow’s Champions League match. It’s not an ultra-important lucifer due to the fact that it doesn’t determine thing - it’s not a knockout game, nor is it a radical signifier similar earlier with 4 teams.

"There are 7 matches, and I judge some we and Inter volition qualify. I spot a large anticipation for Madrid and Inter successful the future, erstwhile things commencement to get precise serious. Tomorrow’s lucifer is conscionable 1 of those games wherever each constituent matters, and surely a apical squad similar Inter volition travel looking for their points, conscionable arsenic we volition effort to do.”

Real Madrid volition besides instrumentality connected Roma, RB Leipzig, AEK Athens, PSV Eindhoven, Arsenal, LASK Linz and Shakhtar Donetsk successful the league signifier of the Champions League.