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The Madrid Derby takes place tonight and it is not a La Liga game, it's the Champions League semi-final. The White part of the city are ahead from the first leg (0-3) and the red and white stripes, Los Colchoneros, the mattress men are not taking this lying down.
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In La Liga, Real Madrid are placed 2nd with 84 points and Atletico 3rd with 74. In 51 derby games, Real have won 36 and drawn 11. The whites must be favourites.

The Atletico's present stadium, known as the Estadio Vincente Calderon holds 55,000 and this will be the final European match played in the stadium. Manager Diego Simeone takes strength from the final La Liga match in the stadium when Eibar were beaten 1-0. He is hoping for the stadium to erupt like a volcano and blast his team into the UEFA Champions League Final. Chances?

Javier Irueta remembers the "European Cup Final" in 1974 when in the semi-final the club had to beat Celtic. They drew with them in Scotland, 0-0 in a synical match when they had three players sent off. In the return match Atletico won 2-0 at home. In the final they lost to Bayern Munich.

The club moves from near the city centre, where a motorway goes under one of the stands, to the Estadio La Peineta, in Spanish a decorative hair comb.

Also known as the Wanda Metropolitano, it has a 68,000 capacity, and is sited in the north-east, conveniently near Madrid Airport, at an old athletics' stadium.
The old stadium is destined to become the Manzanares River Water park!
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The Champions League Final will be held at Cardiff.