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• Asier Illarramendi, Sergio Ramos and Xabi Alonso are a booking away from a suspension.
• Madrid are tournament top scorers with 32 goals, three shy of the record for the current format (with a maximum of 13 games) set by themselves and FC Barcelona in 2011/12, when both exited in the last four.
• The Catalan outfit also hold the overall record of 45 (from 16 games) set in 1999/2000. Madrid equalled the group stage high, held by Manchester United FC (1998/99) and Barcelona (2011/12), of 20 goals scored.
• Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 14th goal of the campaign – equalling Lionel Messi's single-season record set in 2011/12 – in the quarter-final first leg against Borussia Dortmund. Ronaldo has struck 64 UEFA Champions League goals in all.
• Ronaldo found the net nine times in the group stage, breaking the eight-goal record held jointly by Ruud van Nistelrooy (2004/05), Filippo Inzaghi and Hernán Crespo (both 2002/03), and matched by Zlatan Ibrahimović (2013/14). Ronaldo has struck 33 times in his last 26 matches in the competition.
• Madrid's record of scoring in 34 UEFA Champions League games in a row ended in the quarter-final second leg.
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• A solo goal from Gareth Bale, his fifth strike in as many games, earned Madrid a 2-1 victory against Barcelona in the 16 April Copa del Rey final, the 19th time the Merengues have lifted the trophy.
• Since suffering back-to-back defeats towards the end of March, Carlo Ancelotti's side have scored 13 goals without reply in winning their last three Liga fixtures. Madrid were previously 31 games unbeaten.
• Jesé Rodríguez is out for the season after tearing knee ligaments on 18 March. Álvaro Arbeloa and Sami Khedira are sidelined with knee problems, though the latter is back training, while Marcelo has a hamstring injury.
• Ronaldo – who has scored 54 goals in his last 44 outings for club and country, including five hat-tricks – has not played since 2 April because of a left hamstring strain.
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UEFA milestones and competition statistics
• Bayern's ten-match winning run in the UEFA Champions League, surpassing the previous record of nine set by Barcelona in 2002/03, ended with defeat by Manchester City FC on matchday six.
• Javi Martínez and Bastian Schweinsteiger are available after being suspended for the quarter-final second leg. Mario Mandžukić is a booking away from a ban.
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• Bayern, without the ill David Alaba, won for the first time in four league fixtures when they prevailed 2-0 at TSV Eintracht Braunschweig on Saturday.
• Bayern's 53-match Bundesliga unbeaten run, stretching back to October 2012, was ended by a 1-0 loss at FC Augsburg on 5 April, the first time in 65 league games – and 60 in all competitions – they had not found the net.
• The Bavarians drew a blank again on 12 April when they lost 3-0 to Borussia Dortmund – their heaviest home reverse since September 2008. Bayern had not experienced successive top-flight defeats since November 2011.
• Third-choice goalkeeper Lucas Raeder came on for Manuel Neuer (calf) against Dortmund for his Bundesliga debut and retained his place as Bayern beat 1. FC Kaiserslautern 5-1 in the German Cup semi-finals on 16 April. They will play Dortmund in the 17 May showpiece.
• Bayern announced on 14 April that Eintracht Frankfurt midfielder Sebastian Rode will join in the summer on a four-year contract.
• Thiago Alcántara is expected to be out until the end of April with a knee ligament injury suffered on 29 March. Diego Contento sustained a foot injury ahead of the quarter-final first leg while Xherdan Shaqiri went off in Augsburg with a torn muscle in his right thigh.
• Bayern won 3-1 at Hertha BSC Berlin on 25 March to seal the title – their 24th – with a record seven games to spare, one round earlier than last season.
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