Real Madrid vs Liverpool live stream, match preview, team news and kick-off time for this Champions League match

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Real Madrid vs Liverpool live stream and match preview, Wednesday March 15, 8pm GMT

Real Madrid v Liverpool live stream and match preview

Looking for a Real Madrid vs Liverpool live stream? We've got you covered. Real Madrid v Liverpool is on BT Sport in the UK. Brit abroad? Use a VPN to watch the Champions League with your subscription from anywhere.

Liverpool will need to produce one of the all-time great Champions League comebacks if they are to overturn an enormous first-leg deficit away to defending champions Real Madrid.

The Reds were hammered 5-2 at Anfield last month on a night to forget, going two goals ahead only to collapse in spectacular fashion as Vinicius Jr and Karim Benzema both bagged braces.

Jurgen Klopp’s side seemed to have turned their form around with a stunning 7-0 win over Manchester United, but a 1-0 defeat to Bournemouth last time out was another setback.

Real Madrid ended a mini-slump of three games without a win by beating Espanyol 3-1 on Saturday and Carlo Ancelotti’s side are second in La Liga, nine points behind rivals Barcelona.

Kick-off is at 8pm GMT.

Team news

Ferland Mendy and Karim Benzema are approaching comebacks after recent problems, but David Alaba remains sidelined for the Merengues.

Klopp is still without Luis Diaz, Calvin Ramsay, Thiago Alcantara and Joe Gomez, while Naby Keita remains a fitness doubt.

Form

Real Madrid: WDLDW

Liverpool: LWWDL

Referee

Felix Zwayer of Germany is the referee for Real Madrid vs Liverpool. 

Stadium

Real Madrid vs Liverpool will be played at Estadio Santiago Bernabeu in Madrid.

Kick-off and channel

Real Madrid vs Liverpool kick-off is at 8pm GMT on Wednesday, 15 March in the UK. The game is being shown on BT Sport 1, BTSport.com and the BT Sport app.

In the US, kick-off time is 4pm ET / 1pm PT. The match will be shown on Paramount+ in the US. See below for international broadcast options.

VPN guide

Use a VPN to watch Champions League football from outside your country

If you’re out of the country for a Champions League fixture, then you won't be able to watch on your domestic streaming service as usual. The broadcaster knows where you are because of your IP address (boo!) and blocks you from watching it. You can use a VPN to get around that, though, without resorting to illegal feeds you’ve found on Reddit.

A Virtual Private Network (VPN), assuming it complies with your broadcaster’s T&Cs, creates a private connection between your device and t'internet, meaning the service can’t work out where you are and will let you watch. And all the info going between is entirely encrypted, anonymous and safe – and that's a result.

There are plenty of good-value options out there. For the Champions League, FourFourTwo currently recommends:

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International Premier League TV rights

• UK: Sky Sports and BT Sport are the two main players once again, but Amazon also have a slice of the pie in 2022/23. 
• USA: NBC Sports Group are the Premier League rights holders, with the Peacock Premium streaming platform showing even more than the 175 games it aired last season. If you pick up a fuboTV subscription for the games not on Peacock Premium, you'll be able to watch every game.
• Canada: The way to watch Premier League football in 2022/23 is fuboTV, which has exclusive rights to all the action.
• Australia: Optus Sport will screen every game of the Premier League season. Non-subscribers can access the action via a Fetch TV box and other friendly streaming devices.
• New Zealand: Sky Sport are serving up all 380 games – plus various highlights and magazine shows throughout the week, as well as the Champions League.

Alasdair Mackenzie is a freelance journalist based in Rome, and a FourFourTwo contributor since 2015. When not pulling on the FFT shirt, he can be found at Reuters, The Times and the i. An Italophile since growing up on a diet of Football Italia on Channel 4, he now counts himself among thousands of fans sharing a passion for Ross County and Lazio. 

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