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Christian Pulisic's finals in his European career

Christian Pulisic will play his first UEFA Champions League final, after getting the ticket for the duel that will define the champion of the 2020/21 edition of the European tournament and where he will face his compatriot, Zack Steffen, to try to make history and become just the second American to lift the ' Orejona ', with what He would also end his losing streak in finals since he arrived at the English team.

In addition to seeking the first Champions League title in his career, Pulisic will seek to end the curse in finals since his arrival at Chelsea, from Borussia Dortmund, since so far He has fallen in all the finals he has played with the 'Blues', Which is why he will try to claim his claim in the grand final on Saturday 29 May, to be played at the Estadio do Dragāo.

Pulisic will play his fourth final since he arrived at Chelsea and so far all the previous ones have been with a negative balance, as they lost a pair of FA Cups to Arsenal and Leicester, respectively, in addition to falling in the 2019 UEFA Super Cup, against Liverpool.

Pulisic's performance in recent seasons

Christian Pulisic's finals in Europe

Pulisic played his first final in the 2016/17 season, in which Borussia Dortmund beat Eintracht Frankfurt to be crowned Pokal champion, a title that so far is the only one in the career of the American, who in that edition entered for the second half and caused the penalty that gave the title to the German team.

After your first degree as a professional, The spell would begin for the North American, as he registered his first defeat in a final, when Dortmund fell to Bayern Munich in the German Super Cup in 2017, because despite the fact that Pulisic scored the first goal for his team, the Bavarian side won the title in the penalty shootout.

Pulisic left Dortmund and became a Chelsea player, where in just his first season, he fell in a pair of finals. The first of it in the UEFA Super Cup, in which he started as a starter and gave an assist for the Blues, who fell on penalties against Liverpool.

Later, at the end of his 2019/20 campaign, the American had a new opportunity in the grand final of the FA Cup, in which Pulisic made history by becoming the first American to score in the grand final of the longest running tournament in the world and in which Chelsea could not maintain the advantage and ended up losing 2-1 to Arsenal.

Pulisic extended his spell in the finals played with Chelsea just a couple of weeks ago, as the American again fell in the FA Cup final, this time against Leicester City, in a duel in which he entered the exchange and registered his third lost final with the English team.

New title opportunity

The ‘Captain America’ will seek to end his losing streak in the finals, when he faces the great final of the Champions League, in which a new story will be written, as no matter what happens, an American will raise the ‘Orejona’ again for the first time since 1997, when Jovan Kirovski was crowned alongside Borussia Dortmund.

Gabby Barker

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