Two of the best sides in European Cup history, Liverpool and Real Madrid, meet in the last for the third time as the 2021/22 Uefa Champions League reaches a resolution at Stade de France.
Madrid's latest victory, and a third progressive Uefa Champions League triumph, came in Kyiv in 2018 to the detriment of the English side, who had pushed out their Spanish rivals in Paris in 1981 to guarantee their third European Cup, all over the course of about five years.
The Spanish side additionally got the better of Liverpool in last season's quarterfinals and have wiped out two of Liverpool's Premier League rivals in continuous rounds in this season's opposition. The Reds, in the mean time, are confronting a second progressive tie against Spanish resistance having beaten Villarreal in the elimination rounds.
While Liverpool are meaning to win their seventh European Cup, and register a third Uefa Champions League win, Madrid have guaranteed the prize multiple times remembering seven for the Uefa Champions League period - both rivalry records.
Madrid have never lost a Uefa Champions League last. This is their eighth appearance in the installation - another record, outperforming the seven of AC Milan and Juventus.
Madrid's Carlo Ancelotti is the principal mentor to lead a group in five Uefa Champions League finals and is looking for a record-breaking fourth European Cup triumph. He imparts the milestone of three to previous Madrid supervisor Zinédine Zidane and Liverpool's Bob Paisley. A triumph would likewise make Ancelotti the principal mentor to win the Uefa Champions League two times with more than one club.
This is whenever similar clubs first have met in three European Cup finals. Madrid and Reims (1956, 1959), AC Milan and Ajax (1969, 1995), Ajax and Juventus (1973, 1996), Milan and Benfica (1963, 1990), Liverpool and Milan (2005, 2007), Barcelona and Manchester United (2009, 2011), Madrid and Atlético (2014, 2016) and Madrid and Juventus (1998, 2017) have all played each other in two.
This is the fifth Uefa Champions League last between clubs from England and Spain - the apparatus' most regular matching, one more than Italy v Spain.
Last Pedigree
Liverpool
• The Reds have won six of their nine past European Cup finals:
1976/77: Liverpool 3-1 Borussia Mönchengladbach
1977/78: Liverpool 1-0 Club Brugge
1980/81: Liverpool 1-0 Real Madrid
1983/84: Liverpool 1-1 Roma (aet; 4-2 on punishments)
1984/85: Juventus 1-0 Liverpool
2004/05: Liverpool 3-3 AC Milan (aet; 3-2 on punishments)
2006/07: AC Milan 2-1 Liverpool
2017/18: Real Madrid 3-1 Liverpool
2018/19: Liverpool 2-0 Tottenham
This is Liverpool's 23rd Uefa last. Notwithstanding their nine European Cup appearances, they are three-time victors of the Uefa Cup/Uefa Europa League (1973, 1976, 2001), losing the 2016 last, and won the Uefa Super Cup in 1977, 2001, 2005 and 2019, losing in 1978 and 1984. They likewise lost in the 1965/66 European Cup Winners' Cup last, and the 1981 and 1984 European/South American Cup. Their general record in Uefa finals is thusly W13 L9.
Trent Alexander-Arnold, Virgil van Dijk, Andrew Robertson, James Milner, Jordan Henderson, Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mané all began as Jürgen Klopp's Liverpool lost to Madrid in the 2018 last.
After a year Alexander-Arnold, Van Dijk, Robertson, Henderson, Salah, Firmino and Mané, in addition to Alisson, Joël Matip, Fabinho and substitutes Milner, Joe Gomez and Divock Origi all highlighted in Liverpool's success against Tottenham.
Liverpool's 2019 scorers Salah and Origi could join the rundown of seven players who have tracked down the net in two Uefa Champions League finals, as could Mané after his goal against Madrid in 2018. Gareth Bale, Samuel Eto'o, Lionel Messi, Sergio Ramos, Raúl González, Mario Mandžukic and Cristiano Ronaldo, who is the main player to see as the net in three, have all struck in various finals.
Real Madrid
• Madrid have won a record 13 European Cups, and have prevailed in their last seven finals, all in the Uefa Champions League. Generally their last record is W13 L3:
1955/56: Real Madrid 4-3 Reims
1956/57: Real Madrid 2-0 Fiorentina
1957/58: Real Madrid 3-2 AC Milan (aet)
1958/59: Real Madrid 2-0 Reims
1959/60: Real Madrid 7-3 Eintracht Frankfurt
1961/62: Benfica 5-3 Real Madrid
1963/64: Inter 3-1 Real Madrid
1965/66: Real Madrid 2-1 Partizan
1980/81: Liverpool 1-0 Real Madrid
1997/98: Real Madrid 1-0 Juventus
1999/00: Real Madrid 3-0 Valencia
2001/02: Real Madrid 2-1 Bayer Leverkusen
2013/14: Real Madrid 4-1 Atlético de Madrid (aet)
2015/16: Real Madrid 1-1 Atlético de Madrid (aet; 5-3 on punishments)
2016/17: Real Madrid 4-1 Juventus
2017/18: Real Madrid 3-1 Liverpool
In 2017 Madrid turned into the principal side to make a fruitful Uefa Champions League title defense. They were the principal group to hold the European Cup since Milan (1989, 1990). Their 2018 triumph made them the main group to win the prize three years straight two times.
Parcel, who tracked down the net against Atlético in 2014 and Liverpool four years after the fact, could join Cristiano Ronaldo in scoring in three finals. Marcelo (2014), Marco Asensio and Casemiro (both 2017) and Karim Benzema (2018) are hoping to join the rundown of players to have scored in two finals.
Luka Modric, Benzema, Dani Carvajal, Marcelo, Bale and Isco could all show up in their fifth Uefa Champions League last triumph for Madrid.
Notwithstanding those six, Toni Kroos and Casemiro both highlighted in 2016, 2017 and 2018 while Asensio came on as a substitute in 2017 and 2018, as did Lucas Vázquez in 2016 and Nacho in 2018.
Madrid's victory in Kyiv was the eleventh Uefa Champions League win for a Spanish side - five a bigger number of than the following most elevated positioned country, England, and six a larger number of than Italy. Germany (four) is the main other country to have recorded numerous triumphs.
This is Madrid's 33rd Uefa last. Notwithstanding their 16 European Cup appearances, they were Uefa Cup victors in 1985 and 1986 and European Cup Winners' Cup sprinters up in 1971 and 1983. They lifted the Uefa Super Cup in 2002, 2014, 2016 and 2017 close by routs in 1998, 2000 and 2018, and won the European/South American Cup in 1960, 1998 and 2002, losing in 1966 and 2000.
Past gatherings
The latest of the groups' two finals came at Kyiv's NSC Olimpiyski on 26 May 2018, Zidane's Madrid turning into the principal club to win three progressive European Cups two times with a 3-1 triumph against a Liverpool side made due, as now, by Klopp. Benzema's 51st-minute opener was counteracted in something like four minutes by Mané, however two goals from substitute Bale (64, 83) - including a shocking upward exertion - took the prize to Madrid once more.
Paisley's Liverpool beat Madrid, trained by Vujadin Boškov, 1-0 in the 1981 European Cup last at the Parc des Princes in Paris, Alan Kennedy scoring the main goal a little ways from time.
The clubs last ran into each other in the 2020/21 quarterfinals, Madrid winning 3-1 in the home first leg and advancing by a similar total score after a goalless draw at Anfield. Vinícius Júnior scored two times at the Santiago Bernabéu (27, 65) either side of Asensio's 36th-minute strike; Salah's 51st-minute answer was everything Liverpool could summon.
The groups were matched in the 2014/15 gathering stage, Madrid dominating both matches with Benzema scoring two times in the initial, a 3-0 away win. The Frenchman likewise got the main goal as Madrid won 1-0 in Spain fourteen days after the fact.
Liverpool beat Madrid 5-0 on total in the 2008/09 round of 16. Rafael Benítez's Reds won the principal leg 1-0 in Spain prior to finishing an agreeable total triumph with a 4-0 accomplishment back on Merseyside - Madrid's greatest Uefa Champions League rout.
Madrid have four successes to Liverpool's three in the sides' eight gatherings, all in the European Cup. Madrid have scored ten goals, two a greater number of than their English rivals.
Structure Guide
Liverpool
The Reds are in the Uefa Champions League for the fourteenth time; this is the fifth season where they have arrived at the last.
Liverpool partook in an impeccable record in this season's gathering stage having won 2-1 against AC Milan on Matchday 6 to close their ideal Group B crusade. They had opened with a 3-2 win at home to Milan prior to beating Porto (5-1 a, 2-0 h) and Atlético de Madrid (3-2 a, 2-0 h).
The Merseyside club made it four away dominates from four matches with a 2-0 triumph at Inter in the round of 16 first leg, going through regardless of a 1-0 misfortune at Anfield. They then won 3-1 at Benfica in the quarterfinal first leg, advancing 6-4 on total after a 3-3 home draw, prior to beating Villarreal in the last four (2-0 h, 3-2 a).
This is whenever Liverpool first have dominated ten matches in a solitary European mission. They are the primary club to dominate each of the six away matches in a Uefa Champions League crusade.
The Reds were one of three groups who dominated every one of the six gathering matches this season, alongside Ajax and Bayern München. Milan (1992/93), Paris Saint-Germain (1994/95), Spartak Moskva (1995/96), Barcelona (2002/03), Real Madrid (2011/12, 2014/15) and Bayern (2019/20) have all recently kept six successes from six in a Uefa Champions League bunch stage; just Bayern proceeded to lift the prize.
Liverpool's last two Uefa Champions League missions, and three of the last four, have finished in disgrace against clubs from Madrid, their 2018/19 and 2020/21 misfortunes to Real Madrid and their end as holders against Atlético in the 2019/20 round of 16 (0-1 a, 2-3 h aet).
Liverpool have won 12 of their last 15 Uefa Champions League matches away from Anfield (D1 L2).
This season's successes against Atlético and Villarreal have made it six triumphs in Liverpool's last 18 installations against Spanish clubs (D3 L9) - a grouping that likewise remembers 3-1 misfortunes under Klopp for the 2016 Uefa Europa League last to Sevilla and the 2018 Uefa Champions League final.
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