Champions League final preview: Real Madrid v Liverpool
- Real Madrid aiming for third true triumph
- Liverpool tip scorers with a record 46 goals
- Game is during same venue as UEFA EURO 2012 final
Possible line-ups
Real Madrid: Navas; Carvajal, Varane, Ramos, Marcelo; Casemiro, Kroos, Modrić, Isco; Ronaldo, Benzema
Out: none
Doubtful: none
Liverpool: Karius; Alexander-Arnold, Van Dijk, Lovren, Robertson; Henderson, Milner, Wijnaldum; Mané, Firmino, Salah
Out: Oxlade-Chamberlain (knee ligaments), Gomez (ankle), Matip (thigh)
Doubtful: Emre Can (back)
Reporters’ views
Joe Walker, Real Madrid (@UEFAcomJoeW)
Well, once again Madrid are here. The UEFA Champions League final seems to be a date they have circled in a diary each year and once some-more they competence trust it is their destiny to lift a prize for an rare 13th time. Zidane has a preference quandary adult top – Gareth Bale or Karim Benzema? – though whoever isn’t given a curtsy isn’t a bad choice to move on, either.
Matthew Howarth, Liverpool (@UEFAcomMattH)
Klopp’s infantry have no reason to fear Real Madrid. The Merengues competence have big-game knowledge on their side, though Liverpool’s enthusiastic front 3 are able of inflicting critical repairs on a holders. If a Reds can uncover a defensive steel that served them so good over dual legs opposite Manchester City in a quarters, they competence only climax this conspicuous debate with a sixth European Cup.
What a coaches say
Zinédine Zidane, Real Madrid coach
This will substantially be a hardest final we’ve ever had to play. We will have to be during a unequivocally best – we know that – and on all levels, not only physical. They’re an English team, so they will never give up, though they don’t only rest on their earthy attributes. Liverpool are also good technically, with a lot of speed and good particular players.
Jürgen Klopp, Liverpool manager
There are many reasons because we are where we are right now, and I’m immensely unapproachable of what a boys have achieved. We aren’t anyone else. We are Liverpool, on a approach to apropos a unequivocally good team, and behaving during such a high turn is unequivocally cool. It’s been a crazy float but, after all, we’ve warranted a place here.
Where to watch
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Fantasy Football tip points-scorers
Real Madrid: Cristiano Ronaldo, brazen (88 points, €12.9m)
Liverpool: Roberto Firmino, brazen (86 points, €9.7m)
Form guide
Most new game
19/05: Villarreal 2-2 Real Madrid (MartÃnez 70, Castillejo 85; Bale 11, Ronaldo 32)
13/05: Liverpool 4-0 Brighton (Salah 26, Lovren 40, Solanke 53, Robertson 85)
Last 10 games (most new first)
Madrid: DWLDDWWDWL
Liverpool: WLLDWDWWDW
Did we know?
- Ronaldo could turn a initial actor to win a UEFA Champions League 5 times.
- Klopp has mislaid his final 5 vital finals as a manager.
- Sergio Ramos helped Spain win UEFA EURO 2012 during this same stadium.
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