UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2020/21 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Stadion Salzburg - Salzburg Wednesday 9 December 2020 21.00CET (21.00 local time) FC Salzburg Group A - Matchday 6 Club Atlético de Madrid Last updated 08/12/2020 03:51CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Match background 2 Legend 5 1 FC Salzburg - Club Atlético de Madrid Wednesday 9 December 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Salzburg, Salzburg Match background Salzburg and Atlético de Madrid face a Matchday 6 showdown at the Stadion Salzburg with second place in Group A on the line. • With Bayern München already assured of first place, Atleti hold the advantage in the race to join them in the last 16 with six points, two more than Salzburg, who therefore need to beat their Spanish visitors to progress to the knockout phase for the first time. Atlético, who have never lost to Austrian opponents and have a perfect record in Austria, will be through with a win or a draw. • João Félix's second goal of the game settled the Matchday 2 contest between the sides, the Portuguese star scoring the winner five minutes from time in Madrid to give Atleti a 3-2 victory. Form guide Salzburg • All four of Salzburg's points in Group A have come against Lokomotiv Moskva, via a 2-2 draw on Matchday 1 and a 3-1 win in Russia last time out; in addition to losing at Atlético they were also beaten home (2-6) and away (1-3) by Bayern. • Salzburg secured consecutive group stage campaigns this season by coming through the UEFA Champions League qualifying phase for the first time since 1994. • In 2019/20 Salzburg qualified automatically for the group stage, where they finished third in their section behind Liverpool and Napoli; the Austrian club picked up seven points from their six matches to finish six ahead of Genk. • Jesse Marsch's side therefore moved into the UEFA Europa League, losing 6-3 on aggregate to Eintracht Frankfurt in the round of 32 (1-4 a, 2-2 h). • Salzburg ended a run of 13 successive eliminations in UEFA Champions League qualifying since their first group stage appearance in 1994/95 by beating Maccabi Tel-Aviv in this season's play-offs (2-1 a, 3-1 h), Dominik Szoboszlai converting a penalty in each game. The Hungarian scored in Salzburg's first four European games this season. • The Austrian club won a seventh successive Bundesliga title in 2019/20 – their 14th overall – adding the Austrian Cup to complete a domestic double for the seventh time, all in the last nine seasons. • The 6-2 defeat of Genk on Matchday 1 in 2019/20 was Salzburg's sixth successive home European win, and made it 19 European games without defeat in their own stadium (W15 D4). They have won just one of the subsequent six (D2 L3). • Salzburg's record in 15 games against Spanish teams is W5 D2 L8. They won their last home game against Liga visitors, a 2-1 defeat of Real Sociedad in the 2017/18 UEFA Europa League round of 32 second leg (4-3 aggregate), to make it three victories and four defeats in their seven matches with Spanish sides in Salzburg. Atlético • The Rojiblancos responded to a 4-0 opening loss at Bayern, their joint heaviest European defeat, with that victory at home to Salzburg. They have drawn their last three matches, away (1-1) and home (0-0) against Lokomotiv and 1-1 against Bayern last time out, ending the holders' competition-record winning streak at 15. • Third in Spain in 2019/20, this is Atlético's 11th UEFA Champions League group campaign and eighth in a row; all but two of the previous ten have extended into the knockout stages. • Last season, Diego Simeone's side finished second in their section behind Juventus, picking up ten points. Their two defeats both came away, at Bayer Leverkusen (1-2) and Juve (0-1); Atleti were unbeaten at home in the group stage, collecting two wins and a draw. • Atlético then ousted holders Liverpool in impressive style in the round of 16 (1-0 h, 3-2 a aet) but came up short against Leipzig in the quarter-finals in Lisbon, going down 2-1. • The Madrid club have reached the quarter-finals or better in five of their last seven UEFA Champions League campaigns – all under Simeone. • Atlético have lost only seven of their last 36 European matches (W20 D9), although four of those defeats have come in their last 11. • Three of Atleti's last five away European matches have ended in defeat, the exceptions last season's win at Liverpool and the Matchday 3 draw at Lokomotiv. • The Rojiblancos have reached two UEFA Champions League and three UEFA Europa League finals in the last 11 seasons. 2 FC Salzburg - Club Atlético de Madrid Wednesday 9 December 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Salzburg, Salzburg • Before Matchday 2, Atlético last played an Austrian club in the 2013/14 UEFA Champions League group stage, winning 3-0 away and 4-0 at home against Austria Wien with Diego Costa scoring three goals across those two games. • This season's defeat of Salzburg stretched Atleti's unbeaten record against Austrian clubs, home and away, to seven games. They have won all three of their games in Austria, all in Vienna; the only time they have failed to beat Austrian opponents came in Madrid, a 1-1 draw against Rapid Wien in the 1976/77 European Cup Winners' Cup first round second leg (3-2 aggregate). Links and trivia • João Felix was in the Benfica side beaten by Salzburg in the 2017 UEFA Youth League final, Patson Daka scoring the Austrian club's first goal in a 2-1 comeback victory. • Maximilian Wöber spent the second half of 2018/19 on loan at Sevilla, making seven Liga appearances. Latest news Salzburg • Zlatko Junuzović made his 50th appearance in UEFA club competition on Matchday 5. • Mergim Berisha has scored in Salzburg's last three UEFA Champions League games, four goals in all. • Salzburg ended a four-game run without a win (D1 L3) in all competitions in style on 28 November, scoring four times in the first 25 minutes of an Austrian Bundesliga match for the first time en route to an 8-2 victory at St Pölten in which Dominik Szoboszlai and substitute Sékou Koita both hit hat-tricks. • Jesse Marsch's side were beaten 1-0 at Admira on Saturday, their second league defeat of the campaign and the second in their last three matches. They did not lose for the second time in the 2019/20 Austrian Bundesliga until their 21st fixture. • Salzburg have scored four or more goals five times in their 19 fixtures this season. • Salzburg scored 110 goals in 32 league games in 2019/20, and have already managed 34 in their ten fixtures in the new season. • The Austrian champions have lost five of their last nine matches in all competitions (W2 D1), as many as in their previous 43 games (W28 D10). Their four-game run without a victory was their longest since 2016. • Salzburg have not kept a clean sheet in seven games, since a 5-0 home win against Tirol on 31 October. • Salzburg suffered their first league defeat since March on 21 November, going down 3-1 at home to Sturm Graz to end their 18-match unbeaten run (W15 D3). • Salzburg won their first eight games in domestic competition this season, scoring 37 goals and conceding three, before being held to a 1-1 draw at Rapid Wien on 8 November. • The Matchday 1 draw with Lokomotiv ended Salzburg's winning run in all competitions at 12 matches; they were unbeaten in 23 games (W20 D3), since a 3-2 Austrian Bundesliga loss at Altach on 2 March, before losing 3-2 at Atlético on Matchday 2. • The Austrian champions scored at least twice in each of their first 13 matches in 2020/21 in all competitions before being held at Rapid; before the weekend loss at Admira, Salzburg had found the net in 23 matches in a row, since a goalless Bundesliga draw at Wolfsberg on 17 June. • Szoboszlai's added-time strike earned Hungary a 2-1 comeback win in their play-off final against Iceland in Budapest on 12 November and sent the home side to UEFA EURO 2020. • Andreas Ulmer started against Northern Ireland (2-1) and Norway (1-1) as Austria secured promotion to League A of the UEFA Nations League. • Koita opened the scoring as Mali beat Namibia 2-1 in CAF Africa Cup of Nations qualifying on 13 November; Mohamed Camara was a late substitute for Mali. • Enock Mwepu scored Zambia's first goal in a 2-1 home win against Botswana on 12 November, and was also in the side beaten 1-0 away four days later. • Patson Daka, Salzburg's top scorer this season with 12 goals, returned as a substitute on Matchday 5 and started at Admira; he had not been expected to play again this year after sustaining a thigh injury at Atlético on Matchday 2. • Antoine Bernède is likely to be out until 2021 having broken his tibia in training. • Albert Vallci recently agreed a contract extension until 2024. Atlético 3 FC Salzburg - Club Atlético de Madrid Wednesday 9 December 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Salzburg, Salzburg • Atleti are the only side still unbeaten in this season's Liga (W8 D2), winning their last seven matches including Saturday's 2-0 home defeat of Real Valladolid.