Two clubs of considerable Uefa Champions League pedigree meet in the 2023/24 round of 16 as last season's finalists Inter Milan take on Atlético de Madrid, runners-up in 2014 and 2016, with both teams unbeaten in this season's competition. Catch the action live on SuperSport.
The sides are meeting for only the second time although their first leg at San Siro represents a second successive game against a club from their opponents' country for both.
Inter concluded their group campaign with a 0-0 draw at home to Real Sociedad on Matchday 6, ensuring they would finish second behind the Spanish side in Group D. Atlético, meanwhile, made it three successive Champions League victories with a 2-0 win against Lazio in Madrid to seal first place in Group E.
Inter are making a third successive round of 16 appearance having missed out for nine seasons in a row before 2021/22; Atlético are in the knockout rounds for the fifth time in six seasons, although they have lost two of their last four ties at this stage.
MATCH FACTS
The only previous meeting between Internazionale and Atlético de Madrid was in the 2010 Uefa Super Cup, won 2-0 by the Spaniards thanks to goals from Jose Antonio Reyes and Sergio Agüero.
Under Diego Simeone, Atlético de Madrid have won five of their six games in the knockout stages of European competition against Italian sides. However, the most recent of those ended in a 0-3 defeat away to Juventus in the Uefa Champions League last 16 in 2018-19 – a result which eliminated them from the tournament (2-3 on aggregate).
This will be Internazionale’s first Uefa Champions League knockout match against a Spanish side since the 2009-10 semifinal, when José Mourinho’s Inter eliminated Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona 3-2 on
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