"The Playoff" chooses the European champion tonight.. Know the final dates for Madrid and Liverpool
The Real Madrid and Liverpool teams will enter today, Saturday (at 23:00 UAE time) at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, in a third “playoff” match that brings them together in the Champions League final, in a match requested by the two teams with the slogan of breaking up partnership at the level of times. Winning the title at the expense of the other, having previously met in the 1981 and 2018 finals.
Liverpool was the initiator of the first final that brought him together with Real Madrid, after the "Reds" won the Champions League title in 1981 with a score of "1-0", when full-back Alan Kennedy scored the winning goal for Liverpool in the 81st minute of the match that was held in Paris at the stadium. "Parc de Prince", then Bob Paisley became the first coach to win three titles with one club, after he was crowned with Liverpool in 1977 and 1978,
and Real Madrid waited until 2018 to be considered by Liverpool in the final, when the "NSK Olympiaskie Kiev stadium" stood In Ukraine, witnessing the crowning of the "Royal" with the title, by beating the "Reds" with a score of "3-1".In a match in which the French Karim Benzema opened the scoring in the 51st minute, before the Senegalese equalized the score to Liverpool in the 55th minute, and was followed by a gift from the Welshman Gareth Bale, the victory for the Spanish capital Madrid team, by scoring two goals that came in the 64th and 83rd minutes
It is noteworthy that the Real Madrid and Liverpool teams have previously crowned 19 titles in the Champions League, including 13 titles for Real Madrid (a record), and six titles for Liverpool, knowing that today's confrontation is the eighth historically that they have gathered in the continental championship in its various roles. The victory in it is in favor of the "royal" team, with four victories, compared to three for the "Reds".
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