Real Madrid are coming into Athens with an impressive winning streak of 6 matches across all competitions. Their form in the Champions League has been particularly impressive. They have already won all 3 group stage matches and have averaged 4 goals per match over the last two. Their previous encounter was nothing short of thrilling as they staged a remarkable comeback from behind in Rome. Both Kylian Mbappe and Vinicius Junior will be returning for Real Madrid having missed their previous two Champions League encounters. Thibaut Courtois is also available again after missing their last Champions League encounter due to illness and kept a clean sheet when he returned for Saturday's 3-0 victory over Racing Santander.

A.E.K. have had mixed fortunes in Europe. Having started off well by defeating LASK 1-0 in Matchday 1, A.E.K. were subsequently defeated by Shakhtar Donetsk and Manchester City. However, despite this loss of momentum, Barnabas Varga has continued to find the net twice in the competition while the threat posed by Luka Jovic remains. Despite being unable to score regularly in European competition; A.E.K. have found success domestically having beaten Aris, OFI & Panetolikos but these victories came against significantly inferior defenses.

As a result Mourinho's men will be keenly motivated to prevent the need to play in the playoff round which provides them with ample motivation to seek out maximum points. Therefore I anticipate that Madrid will dominate possession and score at least twice.