Liverpool y Real Madrid. Real Madrid y Liverpool. Two of the most historic teams on the continent meet in Paris this coming Saturday (9:00 p.m./TVE) to decide who will be the next champion of the Champions League and, incidentally, unbalance the balance of the history between the two that is right now tied at one victory each in the two European Cup finals they have played.
The first, ‘network’
The first time that Real Madrid y Liverpool met in a final Championsthen called european cupit was in 1981 curiously also in Parisalthough on that occasion Prince’s Parks.
The situations, not like now, were less equal because at that time the English team had just won the 1977 and 1978 editions and later added the 1984 edition to 1981. In other words, a prodigious stage for the ‘reds’.
And for his part, the Real Madrid reached a final 15 years after the last one in 1966 and with a team in which the strongholds were Del Bosque, Stielike and Santillana. Even so, the game was resolved with 1-0 by the Liverpool who took 82 minutes to score a goal, the work of Alan Kennedy, and which earned him his first victory against the whites and which means, to date, the last Champions League final lost by the Real Madrid who has won the next seven.
the second white
And in kyiv is where the last memory of a Champions League final between Real Madrid y Liverpool. Not long ago, in 2018, the white team completed an enviable trident of trophies with a victory against Klopp conditioned by the failures of Karius and where were protagonists Bale for his goals and Cristiano Ronaldo for his statements when he began to say goodbye to the fans that night.
Therefore, the final this Saturday in Pariswhoever is crowned, will unbalance the balance of favor of one of the two who, yes, may meet again later than soon.
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