Real Madrid opened their 2024/25 Champions League campaign with a comfortable 3-1 win over VfB Stuttgart on Tuesday.Kylian Mbappe made the headlines again, scoring for a third consecutive time by

During the revamped league phase, all 36 teams are ranked from top to bottom in a single standings that finishes in January.

Since squeaking past City on penalties in the last-eight and beating Dortmund in last season’s inal at Wembley, Real have lost midfield metronome Toni Kroos to retirement but added the best player in the world to their attack in Kylian Mbappe.

In the senior dressing room, he is closest to fellow Frenchmen Eduardo Camavinga, Aurelien Tchouameni and Ferland Mendy and has become friends with Brahim Diaz. He went for dinner with the Morocco winger last month at the high-end Aarde restaurant, located near Madrid’s iconic Retiro park and Puerta de Alcala roundabout.

Like everyone else this season, Paris Saint-Germain are preparing to enter the new-look UEFA Champions League next week when the reformatted league phase gets underway. Luis Enrique led the French giants to a surprise semifinal last campaign yet it felt underwhelming given the way that Les Parisiens lost out to eventual beaten finalists Borussia Dortmund.

Real Madrid's Kylian Mbappe has declared himself to be “always hungry for more” after collecting the first Champions League Golden Boot of his career.

PSG closed a seven-year chapter last summer when Kylian Mbappe left the French capital club as the all-time top scorer to finally fulfil his childhood dream of wearing the Real Madrid shirt.