In the first round of the UEFA Champions League league phase, Real Madrid made full use of Inter's mistakes, with Mbappe and Valverde scoring the goals. Late in the match, Carlos Augusto's goal came too late, and the final score was fixed at 2-1. After the match, former Inter player Aldo Serena shared his views in the Sky Sport Italia studio.

Serena said: "In this tropical greenhouse that is the Bernabeu, what I saw was not really two teams, but rather two groups of players fighting with all their strength, giving everything they had to win this match."
"I think the atmosphere at the venue had reached an unbearable level, and that is why neither side was able to produce many impressive attacking moves."