This will be the 10th gathering among Liverpool and Real Madrid in the European Cup/Uefa Champions League - subsequent to winning the initial three somewhere in the range of 1981 and 2009, the Reds are winless in the last five (D1 L4), remembering a loss for the last in 2018.
Liverpool and Real Madrid will meet for the third time in the last of the European Cup/Uefa Champions League, the most between two clubs across the historical backdrop of the two rivalries. Liverpool won the principal last back in 1981 (1-0), preceding Real Madrid beat Jürgen Klopp's side 3-1 out of 2018.
Liverpool are hoping to win the European Cup/Uefa Champions League for the seventh time in their set of experiences - a triumph in Paris would take them level with AC Milan (7), and leave them just behind rivals Real Madrid (13) for the most by and large triumphs across the two rivalries.
Real Madrid are intending to win the European Cup/Uefa Champions League for the fourteenth time, which would then be two times as numerous as some other group (7, AC Milan). Los Blancos have lifted the prize on every one of the last seven events when they have showed up in the last, with their last loss in the masterpiece coming against Liverpool back in 1981 - a game that was likewise played in Paris - because of an Alan Kennedy champ.
Liverpool chief Jürgen Klopp has confronted Real Madrid a larger number of times than some other rival in the Uefa Champions League (9), winning only three of those matches (D2 L4). Among groups he has looked no less than multiple times in the opposition, against no other rival does Klopp have a lower win rate (33%).
Carlo Ancelotti is hoping to win the Uefa Champions League for the fourth time; the most by any supervisor in the opposition's set of experiences (after 2002-03 and 2006-07 with AC Milan, and 2013-14 with current club Real Madrid). Ancelotti has lifted the prize in three of his past four Uefa Champions League finals, simply neglecting to do as such against Liverpool in 2004-05 with AC Milan (lost 2-3 on punishments).
Liverpool have permitted less resistance groupings of 10+ continuous passes per game than some other group in the Uefa Champions League this season (4.1). Besides, just Ajax (7.4) - who were dispensed with in the last 16 - permitted less resistance passes per protective activity than Liverpool (8.5) this term.
Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has scored 33 goals under Jürgen Klopp in the Uefa Champions League; just three players have at any point gotten more while playing under a solitary chief in the opposition's set of experiences - Lionel Messi under Pep Guardiola (43), Ruud van Nistelrooy under Sir Alex Ferguson (35) and Thierry Henry under Arsène Wenger (35).
Real Madrid have five unique players in their crew with 100+ Uefa Champions League appearances (Karim Benzema, Toni Kroos, Luka Modric, Marcelo and David Alaba) - they could turn into the main group to name a beginning XI for a last with at least four distinct players having made hundred years of appearances in the opposition. The current-most is three, which was additionally by Real Madrid in the 2018 last (Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema and Sergio Ramos).
Jordan Henderson could make his 50th Uefa Champions League appearance for Liverpool (presently on 49), which would see him join Jamie Carragher (80), Steven Gerrard (73) and Phil Neal (57) as the main English players to arrive at 50 games for the Reds in the European Cup/Uefa Champions League.
Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema, who will be 34 years and 160 days old upon the arrival of the game, would be the second-most established player to score in a Uefa Champions League last, after Paolo Maldini for AC Milan in 2005 (36y 333d, likewise v Liverpool). Benzema opened the scoring in a 3-1 win the last time these two groups went head to head in the last of the opposition, back in 2018.
Starting from the beginning of the 2017-18 season, Mohamed Salah has scored 33 goals and made 11 helps for Liverpool in the Uefa Champions League - just Robert Lewandowski (55) and Kylian Mbappé (47) have been straightforwardly engaged with additional goals. In this period, Salah is one of just two players with 30+ goals and 10+ aids the opposition, alongside Lionel Messi.
Karim Benzema has scored 15 goals for Real Madrid in the Uefa Champions League this season, only two behind the unsurpassed record in a solitary European Cup/Uefa Champions League crusade (17, Cristiano Ronaldo in 2013-14). On the off chance that he scores in this game, Benzema would likewise turn into the out and out third top scorer throughout the entire existence of the two contests (at present level with Robert Lewandowski on 86), behind Cristiano Ronaldo (140) and Lionel Messi (125).
Liverpool's Trent Alexander-Arnold could show up in a Uefa Champions League last. Matured 23 years and 233 days upon the arrival of the current year's conclusive, he would be the second-most youthful player in the opposition's set of experiences to play in three finals, after Alessandro Del Piero in 1998 (23y 192d), while the right-back could be the most youthful to begin three such finals, outperforming Thomas Müller (23y 254d).
Real Madrid winger Vinícius Júnior has been straightforwardly engaged with nine goals in the Uefa Champions League this season (three goals, six helps) - the last South American player to be straightforwardly associated with 10+ in a solitary mission in the opposition while 21 or under was Lionel Messi in 2008-09 (14 - nine goals, five helps).
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