Real Madrid won their fourteenth European title by beating Liverpool 1-0 on Saturday at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis near Paris.
The Royal Club owes its record number of titles and the renewal of the victory over Liverpool, who lost 1-3 to Spain in the 2018 final in Kyiv, to the Brazilian Vinicius Junior, who scored in the 59th minute the only goal in the meeting, the start of which was postponed for 36 minutes due to “security issues” related to the “delayed arrival of fans” at the stadium.
And the Vifa Continental Confederation later revealed that the reason for the crowd at the entrances to the stadium was the holders of fake tickets, expressing its “sympathy” for those affected by these events, and to address “these issues urgently with the French police and authorities, and also with the French Football Federation.
Vinicius Junior was not the only Saint-Denis champion, but Belgian goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois played a key role in giving his Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti the achievement of becoming the first coach to win the title four times in the history of the competition in his former and current format, his brilliance in the face of Liverpool’s attempts, especially the Egyptian Mohamed Salah, who was looking for a rematch with the Royal Club after being denied a finish in front of him in 2018 due to a shoulder injury inflicted by Sergio Ramos.
Real Madrid, who also crowned the local league title, stripped their English rivals of their seventh title in the continental competition and the treble to settle for titles in two local cup competitions after dreaming of a historic quartet ahead of Manchester City. robbed him of a local league win at the last stage by one point, and then at the Royal Club, beating him on Saturday at the Stade de France.
Briefly about the final match
Tournament: UEFA Champions League – Final
Venue: Stade de France in Saint-Denis, a suburb of Paris.
Referee: Clement Tourpan, France
Goals:
Real Madrid: Brazilian Vinicius Junior (59)
Alerts:
Liverpool: Brazilian Fabinho (62)
Liverpool squad:
Brazilian Alisson Becker – Trent Alexander-Arnold, Frenchman Ibrahima Konate, Dutchman Virgil van Dijk, Scotsman Andrew Robertson – Brazilian Fabinho, Jordan Henderson (Naby Keita, 77), Spaniard Thiago Alcantara (Brazilian Roberto Firmino, 77) – Egyptian Mohamed Salah, Senegalese Sadio Mane, Colombian Luis Dias (Portuguese Diogo Jota, 65)
Coach: Jurgen Klopp
Real Madrid squad:
Belgian Thibaut Courtois – Dani Carvajal, Brazilian Eder Militao, Austrian David Alaba, Frenchman Ferland Mendy – Brazilian Casemiro, German Toni Kroos, Croat Luka Modric (Dani Ceballos, 90) – Uruguayan Federico Valverde (Frenchman Eduardo Camavinga, 86), Frenchman Karim Benzema , Brazilian Vinicius Junior (Brazilian Rodrigo, 3+90)
Coach: Carlo Ancelotti
