Champions League

The clash between the European heavyweights is both an exciting match-up and a sign of the times.

However, some reports are not focusing on Salah. Instead, they are talking up the battle between Real’s Vinícius Júnior and Reds full-back Trent Alexander-Arnold. The former is rapid, meaning Alexander-Arnold will need to look over his shoulder when supporting the attack. The teams’ run to the final has depended on various individuals peaking in the right moments. Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah was unstoppable during the first half of the season, and just as his goals have dried up slightly, Sadio Mané and Luis Díaz have stepped up in the final third. They have never won the Champions League. With exceptional players and a world-class coach—especially in City’s case—they can. Real and Liverpool have done so 19 times between them, and the ticker will strike 20 when either Marcelo or Jordan Henderson—possible captains on the night—lifts the prize at the Stade de France. Factoring in the amount PSG could have received from Real, alongside its longer-term expenditure to keep Mbappé, holding onto its brightest young player has meant an approximate $400 million hit, the New York Times reasoned.

With this year's UEFA Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid set to take centre stage on May 28, The Sporting News is already looking ...

Real Madrid 4-3 Stade de Reims Stade Velodrome Paris The Reds eventually won on penalties after a 3-3 draw.

Will Liverpool or Real Madrid lift the trophy on Saturday night? We asked some star names at PlayStation House in Paris.

He'll keep Liverpool out and Real Madrid will score late on. I think their name's written on it; I bet against them every single knockout round previously and they have smashed me so I'm going to go with them this time. I'll say Madrid to win it on penalties.

Of course, when it first started it was called the European Cup. It stayed that way until 1992, when the competition was rebranded as UEFA Champions League as ...

1 Grabbing four championships in five years, they were arguably the best club team in Europe for the better part of a decade, winning the UCL title in 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2018. Ahead of the match, we’re taking a dive into some Champions League history, looking at who has won the most titles over the years since the tournament’s inception in 1955.

The biggest club football match of the year is finally here with Liverpool to face Real Madrid in the 2021-22 UEFA Champions League final.

Additionally, a free live stream will be available on the BT Sport website and YouTube channel. It will also be shown free-to-air for Virgin Media customers on channel 532. May 29, 03:00 (HKT)

Real Madrid and Liverpool will square off on Saturday in Paris. The game is a rematch of the 2018 final.

Real Madrid is in the final for the fifth time since 2014; in each of its previous four visits since 2014, its fans will quickly point out, it has left with the trophy. In that sense, Liverpool is probably the toughest test Madrid could have faced in the final. But the nature of the way the team plays, conjuring those irresistible surges, is not. Real Madrid has been able to snatch victory from defeat against three of the best-equipped opponents in Europe because its players believe in the club’s almost mystical refusal to wilt. But Madrid has been helped by the fact that the opposition are inclined to believe it, too. The final also was the first time that Pérez and the UEFA president, Aleksander Ceferin, met in person since a Pérez-led effort to create a European Super League failed spectacularly just over a year ago. Instead, the tournament organizer, UEFA, and city officials hosted fans of the rival teams in separate venues closer to the city limits. Yes, in a way. To win its seventh European Cup on Saturday, Liverpool will have to break that sequence. Paris was easily able to absorb the influx of fans, though in its usual tourist hot spots there was little sign that soccer’s biggest game was in town. Paris St.-Germain almost looked as if it were waiting for the wave to crash. Real Madrid, which won the Spanish league this year, is chasing a record 14th Champions League title after narrowly dodging elimination in the semifinals.

Saturday's game against Real Madrid will be the tenth Champions League final Liverpool have featured in.

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Some 7000 police officers will be on duty to marshal fans during Saturday's Champions League final set for the Stade to France, north of Paris, where as ...

Liverpool will be seeking to cap a remarkable season by avenging their 2018 Champions League final defeat, a 3-1 loss to Real Madrid in Kyiv. The fan zone for #LFCfans will be on Cours de Vincennes in Paris' 12th arrondissement. "I'll just find a place in the city and watch the game." But the Spanish giants have their sights set on a 14th European Cup triumph. "I'm going to have a look around and see if I can get a ticket, but obviously not pay too much," one English fan told a reporter outside the venue. The pitch was then laid over the course of 48 hours.

Traders say the city is "the next best thing to Paris" ahead of the Champions League final.

Merseyside Police said the weekend was "set to be a busy one" and predicted "large numbers of people" travelling to the city. The 62-year-old said she was a "little worried" about people getting too drunk and rowdy but she hoped the match would go well and it would "give a boost to the local economy". Retail complex Liverpool ONE said it anticipated the weekend to be "the busiest of the year" for visitor numbers as fans flock to the city. Mayor of Liverpool, Joanne Anderson, agreed there was a "real buzz" in the city "regardless of the outcome". Peter Hunter, one of the directors for Liverpool's Baltic Triangle, said the final was both a "mood and trade" boost for the city. With excitement building, Liverpool has been described as "the next best thing to being in Paris".

Choose your color -- red or white. The bars and stands around Paris' Stade de France, the venue for Saturday's Champions League final, have certainly nailed ...

"There the substitute has more space and that's where the player who entered later can decide the match -- that's what happened with me in the other knockout rounds. "I think the coach is making it a little easier because we have players who are very close friends, we're friends too and this helps a lot. "The team will be [most important] for both, they're not just individuals attacking and defending; both teams are teams, from attackers to midfielders and defenders. "We've been through Paris [Saint-Germain], Chelsea and yes, they're great teams, but Liverpool is also there, it's a great team. Liverpool are maybe small favorites but I believe with Madrid, they always play finals, they always know the way to play finals and win. In an attempt to offer an explanation, Real defender Nacho simply said there was "magic" at the Bernabeu on nights such as those.

The 2022 UEFA Champions League final is poised to be an epic encounter as Liverpool and Real Madrid do battle in Paris.

Additionally, a free live stream will be available on the BT Sport website and YouTube channel. It will also be shown free-to-air for Virgin Media customers on channel 532. UK: The Champions League final will be available on BT Sport 1 and BT Sport Ultimate for subscribers.

Thousands of soccer fans are descending on Paris to see Liverpool and Real Madrid meet in the Champions League final.

We play this final for all the people, not only but as well, for all the people in Ukraine.” “Let’s see it like this, that the game still happens and is not in St Petersburg maybe is exactly the right message which Russia should get. “The war is still going on . . . and we have to think about that,” Klopp said. Not this time due to the pandemic but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine which saw St. Petersburg stripped of hosting rights. While the Premier League was missed out on by a single point last weekend, the season can end with a rare treble of trophies, having already won the FA Cup and the League Cup. “We are very close to achieving something huge this season, and we will give our all to achieve it,” Ancelotti said.

Thousands of soccer fans are descending on Paris to see Liverpool and Real Madrid meet in the Champions League final.

We play this final for all the people, not only but as well, for all the people in Ukraine.” “Let’s see it like this, that the game still happens and is not in St Petersburg maybe is exactly the right message which Russia should get. “The war is still going on . . . and we have to think about that,” Klopp said. Not this time due to the pandemic but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine which saw St. Petersburg stripped of hosting rights. While the Premier League was missed out on by a single point last weekend, the season can end with a rare treble of trophies, having already won the FA Cup and the League Cup. “We are very close to achieving something huge this season, and we will give our all to achieve it,” Ancelotti said.

Liverpool and Real Madrid meet in the Champions League final for the second time in five years in Paris on Saturday, with Jurgen Klopp's side aiming to end ...

We know very well the demands at this club, the history, but for us to get here is huge," said Ancelotti, who last year was in charge of Liverpool's local rivals Everton. Liverpool look to have the stronger side on paper, with Alisson in goal, Virgil van Dijk marshalling their defence and Salah and Sadio Mane leading their attack. The Anfield club can win their seventh European Cup, a tally that would see them go level with AC Milan and leave only Real with more victories.

Only five of the 16 European Cup finals that have gone to extra time have not needed penalties to decide a winner. Is it time for change?

So if the 90 minutes ends with the scores tied, or say 15 minutes of regular extra time can’t separate the sides, the number of players would gradually drop: first to 10 vs 10, then nine vs nine and so on, perhaps all the way to five-a-side — and then a golden goal next-scorers-win scenario instead of a shootout (goalkeepers would be exempt from removal). But extra time can be notoriously cagey, and not much of a spectacle. What if, say, the team with the most shots on target during extra time are declared the winners if the scores are level at the final whistle? Others say extra time is normally a bore-fest and that we should go straight to penalties after 90 minutes. Once a winner from the shootout is declared, then play your 90 minutes of football as normal. So, is it time to change extra time or are the rules fine as they are?

Liverpool and Real Madrid have appeared in a combined 25 European Cup and Champions League finals.That figure will go up to 27 on Saturday evening as the ...

2017-18 - Real Madrid 3-1 Liverpool (NSC Olimpiyskiy Stadium) 2017-18 - Real Madrid 3-1 Liverpool (NSC Olimpiyskiy Stadium) They have met twice before in European finals, with Liverpool winning 1-0 at the Parc des Princes in the 1980-81 season.

Paris has been the centre of the football world two Saturdays running, but its attitude to the game is deemed 'laissez-faire' by outsiders.

They are based in the south of the city, at Stade Charlety. It is why its first-ever final — in 1956 — was played at the Parc des Princes. Real Madrid won it. It could be similar to London, because of the importance football has taken on in the past few years. We are confident that Racing has the right profile to be the true second club in Paris.” “What we have in mind is an agreement with an English club where they could identify talent but the boys would be allowed to stay here and work gradually towards a move. Norbert, a former actor and movie producer and ex-chairman of now Ligue 1 side Angers, speaks that way as beyond the main pitch, the Racing academy is full of players and matches. “Today the only big club is PSG and we are trying to exist away from them. The Olympics are bringing a total regeneration of Stade Yves-du-Manoir, and Racing will feel the benefit. It was the venue for the 1924 Olympics — this is where Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell, subjects of the Oscar-winning film Chariots Of Fire, ran, and it is also where Michael Caine, Pele, Sylvester Stallone and company would Escape To Victory in the 1981 movie set during the Second World War. Whether people associate it with Paris™ — the City of Light, the Seine, Notre-Dame, Montmartre, the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower — is another matter. By 2024-25 the top two divisions — Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 — will each be reduced to 18 clubs from the current 20. Banlieue, meaning suburb, is sometimes used in France to indicate economic and social disadvantage, but in football, banlieue has taken on a different connotation.

The clash between Liverpool and Real Madrid in the final of this year's Uefa Champions League, Europe's most prestigious and richest football tournament, ...

Liverpool hope to secure a third trophy this season, while Real Madrid seek to add to their La Liga triumph.

“It is a great success for all of us to be here. The final promises to be a fitting climax to the European season, with Liverpool looking to win a second Champions League in four seasons since losing 1-3 to Real Madrid in Kyiv in 2018, when Mohamed Salah went off injured in the first half and Gareth Bale scored twice for the Spaniards. Liverpool and Real Madrid meet in the Champions League final for the second time in five years, with Jurgen Klopp’s side aiming to end the season with a trophy treble while the Spanish giants will look to Karim Benzema to inspire them to a record-extending 14th European Cup victory.

Here's the time in Canada for the Liverpool vs. Real Madrid UEFA Champions League final on Saturday, May 28. The biggest match of the European season can be ...

Juanfran missed his team's fourth spot kick, and Cristiano Ronaldo stepped up to deliver the winner. Each team would take a minimum of five penalties each, and if the shootout score is level, they move on to sudden death penalty rounds until a winner emerges. The teams will play two 15-minute halves of extra time. This year's match will be the first Champions League final held in France since 2006, when Barcelona defeated Arsenal 2-1. It was christened in 1998 as Zinedine Zidane scored the lone goal in a 1-0 win for France over Spain. Instead, the final was moved to Saint-Denis, France. Liverpool 1-0 Real Madrid Real Madrid 1-0 Liverpool Real Madrid 3-1 Liverpool There were 80 teams that competed as part of the 2022 UEFA Champions League, and now only two remain. Real Madrid 3-1 Liverpool League champions from every national federation are admitted to the competition, with other clubs qualifying through their table finish in their domestic league.

Thousands of soccer fans are descending on Paris to see Liverpool and Real Madrid meet in the Champions League final.

We play this final for all the people, not only but as well, for all the people in Ukraine.” “Let’s see it like this, that the game still happens and is not in St Petersburg maybe is exactly the right message which Russia should get. “The war is still going on . . . and we have to think about that,” Klopp said. Not this time due to the pandemic but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine which saw St. Petersburg stripped of hosting rights. “We are very close to achieving something huge this season, and we will give our all to achieve it,” Ancelotti said. While the Premier League was missed out on by a single point last weekend, the season can end with a rare treble of trophies, having already won the FA Cup and the League Cup.

Liverpool and Real Madrid, two sides with extensive history in the UEFA Champions League, will meet in the final in Paris.

Gannett may earn revenue from Tipico for audience referrals to betting services. - 2007-08: Manchester United (England) over Chelsea (England), 1-1 (Manchester United won penalty shootout, 6-5) - 2013-14: Real Madrid (Spain) over Atletico Madrid (Spain), 4-1 - 2015-16: Real Madrid (Spain) over Atletico Madrid (Spain), 1-1 (Real Madrid won penalty shootout, 5-3) The final is set for a 3 p.m. ET start. It was in Real Madrid's last Champions League final appearance where it knocked off Liverpool to lift the trophy.

All the details fans in Canada need to watch the 2022 UEFA Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid from the Stade de France outside Paris.

This year's match will be the first Champions League final held in France since 2006. Instead, the final was moved to Saint-Denis. That meant the Krestovsky Stadium in Saint Petersburg, Russia landed the 2022 final, but that also proved short-lived. 2nd leg 1st leg 2nd leg Jurgen Klopp's men surpassed both with ease though they made things interesting at one point in each series. A 1-1 draw through 120 minutes was followed up by penalty kicks as Real Madrid were triumphant with Cristiano Ronaldo netting the clincher. The last Champions League final to need penalties to separate the teams was the Real Madrid vs. Each team would take a minimum of five penalties each, and if the shootout score is level after five rounds, each subsequent penalty kick round will be sudden death until a winner emerges. Liverpool and Real Madrid will be facing off for the third time in a Champions League final with each team winning one of the previous two encounters. Moving the final to a weekend slot back in 2010 means maximum exposure for the 2022 edition between two of the most popular clubs on the planet: Liverpool vs.

PARIS (AP) — Thousands of soccer fans were descending on Paris to see Liverpool and Real Madrid meet in the Champions League final later Saturday.

Predicted line-ups, team news and selection dilemmas ahead of the UEFA Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid.

One area where Carlo Ancelotti does have a decision to make, however, is in the front three. David Alaba and Éder Militão look like they have been playing together for years at the back. Our team reporters also consider the two coaches' main selection dilemmas and keep tabs on any potential absences.

About 60000 Reds supporters have made the journey to France for the Champions League final.

but I always had faith, despite all the challenges we've had". Ian Finlay, who had planned to try and buy a ticket in Paris, said he had been left "unbelievably chuffed" when his family and friends surprised him with a ticket for the match on the ferry to Calais. Thousands have travelled to the French capital without tickets, with some saying they were keen to soak in the "carnival atmosphere". She said the passengers "were split into two groups" and were then told "which group was going and which group wasn't". A WCS spokesman said there had been "an issue with two aircraft which were cancelled by the airline at the last minute" and staff had worked "all day and most of the evening" to find seats for passengers on other carriers. He said the original coach had to be replaced and the ferry at Dover had to be pushed back, which led to "some worried faces...

Saturday's match between Liverpool and Real Madrid will be the biggest appointment of Turpin's career to date. But he already has plenty of big match experience ...

But UEFA consider Turpin one of the best in Europe." "I've achieved two of the biggest dreams that a referee can have. It's a special place, to be sure." Fellow former EPL ref Mark Halsey told The Sun that Turpin will be a "safe pair of hands". Clement Turpin will be the referee in charge of the 2022 Champions League final. Reflecting on his selection for the Champions League final and his recent inclusion on the list of referees picked for the 2022 World Cup, he added: "I feel privileged.

A group of supporters made their own plan to reach Paris for Saturday's Champions League final.

As many as 60,000 Liverpool fans were predicted to arrive in Paris on Saturday by coach, train, boat and plane. They were among tens of thousands of fans predicted to arrive in the French capital ahead of tonight’s final. They got a flight to Jersey last minute and they met up with us and asked could we get them to France,” he told the Liverpool Echo.

The Spanish champion is seeking its record 14th European title on Saturday in Paris. Liverpool, the Premier League runner-up, is chasing its seventh.

Liverpool has, of course, be in this spot before: It lost to Real Madrid in the 2018 final. A favorable knockout-round draw and a helpful upset — not to mention playing some of the best soccer in the club’s history — meant that its opponents were swatted aside relative ease. Real Madrid faced all the so-called new money clubs in the knockout rounds, and in doing so came face to face with elimination multiple times. It has now played a quarter of the all the finals that have been contested, in fact, including — after Saturday — five of the past nine. As of 15.00 on 26.05 until 18.00 on Sunday 29.05 it is prohibited to wear any football club colours in the area of the Champs Elysees. This includes scarves, hats, displaying banners etc. That might have been related to a warning issued to supporters of both teams that they risked fines of 135 euros (almost $150) if they turned up wearing club colors in places like the Eiffel Tower or the Champs Élysées, the grand avenue that is typically flooded with visitors. Real Madrid is in the final for the fifth time since 2014; in each of its previous four visits since then, its fans will quickly point out, it has left town with the trophy. Chelsea, Manchester City and P.S.G. could not disabuse Real Madrid of its abiding belief in its own agency; Ancelotti and his players have plenty of reason to be confident that Liverpool will go the same way. Europe and the rest of the world. Ordinarily, at a club as proud and demanding as Real Madrid, those twin embarrassments would be enough to spark some sense of mutiny. Real was imperious in the first leg against Chelsea. That aside, it has had to weather fairly consistent storms. Just give Real Madrid the trophy and save everyone the bother.

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Liverpool and Real Madrid are no strangers when it comes to the Champions League, having met in the final twice before, first in 1981 and then again in 2018. Furthermore, Liverpool have not beaten Real in the Champions League since 2008-09 when they thrashed them 5-0 on aggregate in the round of 16. Another win for the Spanish giants tonight would see them claim the cup for a fifth time in nine years. No other English side have ever reached the final of all three competitions in the same campaign. Benzema has also scored a career-high 44 goals in 45 games for Real in all competitions this season, with Robert Lewandowski of Bayern Munich (50 goals) the only player in all of Europe's top five leagues to have registered more in 2021-22. Real Madrid have gone early with their team by announcing their starting XI a full hour before it has to be submitted to UEFA. Coach Carlo Ancelotti has selected Fede Valverde ahead of Rodrygo in his front three. Liverpool's team bus has had a struggle to get through the traffic to make it to the Stade de France. Jurgen Klopp and his players are only just arriving now, having been temporarily stuck in traffic on the motorway close to the stadium. So while Real's players are now beginning to stroll onto the pitch to get an early feel for their surroundings, Liverpool's team are still waiting to get off the bus. And in defence, Ibrahima Konate is chosen ahead of Joel Matip alongside Virgil van Dijk. Thiago had been the biggest doubt, having limped out of the win against Wolves six days ago with a tweaked hamstring. Jurgen Klopp's side dispatched Inter Milan, Benfica and Villarreal in the knockout rounds while Carlo Ancelotti led his team past Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea and Manchester City in a series of comeback wins. Twice Klopp came up to talk to him and Naby Keita has been warming up with the starters. Those hundreds of supporters who have been waiting idly outside for the last few hours unable to enter through the crowded turnstiles would probably beg to differ.

Two soccer titans meet in a match to determine the best club in Europe. Follow along for live updates and analysis.

Real Madrid finished second in La Liga last season to qualify for the Champions League. It topped Group D with five wins and one loss. It won all six of its Champions League group-stage matches and then beat Inter Milan, Benfica and Villarreal in the knockout round to advance to the final. (Scottish club Celtic in 1966-67 became the only team to achieve a quadruple of major European trophies). Liverpool won a pair of domestic cup competitions earlier this season. Twelve minutes later, after a Sadio Mané equalizer, Gareth Bale angled an acrobatic bicycle kick over Karius, who again became the focus of fan ire when Bale drilled a long shot through his hands to score 20 minutes later. The governing body initially described the reason for the delay to late-arriving fans, but updated the attribution as a “security issue.” Thiago made his return after sustaining an injury during Sunday’s Premier League finale. Its best chance came around the 20th minute when Sadio Mané cut inside and unleashed a shot that hit the near post as Madrid keeper Thibaut Courtois scrambled to recover. Return to menu Madrid rode a second-place finish in Spain’s La Liga, followed by a 5-1 record in the group-stage and knockout wins over Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea and Manchester City, to the final. Return to menu Two of the top clubs in European soccer renew acquaintances Saturday in Saint-Denis, France, as Liverpool meets Real Madrid for the UEFA Champions League crown.

Saturday's Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid kicked off following a 36-minute delay after police tried to hold off fans trying to ...

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Follow along here as the two European giants meet in a dynamic title match in Paris, where more history will be made.

Meanwhile, Real Madrid won its 35th Spanish league title earlier this year. Four years ago, the two sides met in the Champions League final in Kyiv. Real Madrid prevailed, 3–1, thanks in part to two second-half goals from Gareth Bale. However, the game has been widely remembered for Sergio Ramos injuring Mohamed Salah in the first half, and the Egyptian has vowed to exact a measure of revenge with his new opportunity. The road to Paris has been filled with twists and turns, but on Saturday, two European giants in Liverpool and Real Madrid will meet to decide the Champions League title.

The Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid in Paris was delayed on Saturday amid crowd congestion outside the Stade de France.

They forced their way through the first filter. UEFA announced the delay at 8:46 p.m. CET before saying that a further announcement would be made within a maximum of 15 minutes. The screening at the Stade de France is watertight.

The Champions League final was delayed by 36 minutes — with Liverpool fans stuck outside the stadium in the build-up to the game.The game was originally...

It is understood that fans were left queueing outside the ground for more than two and a half hours. Funnelled into an area with a police van and there was almost a crush. I've been to five Champions League finals but I've never experienced anything like this. Liverpool fan Peter Clarkson, who has been an Anfield season ticket holder for over 20 years, told The Athletic: "I've never been so scared in my life. Further footage showed children suffering from the impact of pepper spray. The match was then delayed again, before a further six-minute delay until 8.36pm.