
Real Madrid’s second Champions League league phase match takes them to Asia, where they will take on Kairat.
Xabi Alonso’s men only had one day to process their poor 5–2 defeat against Atlético Madrid before they took an 11-hour flight to Almaty. The long journey would have given Real Madrid plenty of time to think over both what went wrong against their arch-rivals and their strategy for their return to Champions League action.