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Liverpool

will face

Real

Madrid in the Champions League final for the

ninth time in the history of the competition.

The record of victories leans in favor of Madrid with four victories against those of the English club, with three.

Only once, in last season's quarter-finals, have they drawn.

Liverpool's top scorer this season,

Mohamed Salah

, has scored 8 goals and

Karim Benzema

at Real Madrid has scored almost twice as many, 15 goals.

It should be noted that the Frenchman has scored most of his goals, eleven, during the second half of the match.

On the other hand, the forward of the English club distributes his goals almost equally, three in the first half and five in the second.

Liverpool

and

Real Madrid

meet again in a

Champions League final

four years after Real Madrid won 3-1 in Kiev.

Liverpool coach

Klopp

will fight for his second Champions League after winning it in 2019 with the same club.

For

Ancelotti

it would be his fourth Champions League, the previous three he won with Milan in 2003 and 2007 and with Real Madrid in 2014.

RESULTS AND NUMBERS OF THE FINALISTS OF THE CHAMPIONS

Benzema

has been very present during the twelve games played this season, highlighting the last four, two quarterfinals and another two semifinals, with seven goals, where Salah has been missing.

The Frenchman scored three goals against

Chelsea

in the first leg of the quarterfinals and two goals against

Manchester

in the first leg of the semi-finals.

Both Real Madrid and Liverpool played their first match of the current season on September 15, 2021. The English club faced

Milan

at

Anfield

winning 3-2 and the white club faced

Inter

at

San Siro

winning 0-1 .

From that night, until reaching the final next Saturday, they have played twelve games where

most of the goals scored by both teams are concentrated after the break

, with Real Madrid the one that accumulates a higher percentage of their goals in the

second time

.

ALL THE GOALS OF MADRID AND LIVERPOOL THIS SEASON IN CHAMPIONS

From its first final, on June 13, 1956, until the final on May 28,

Real Madrid has played sixteen finals

.

The only three occasions in which they have reached the final and have only been runner-up have been in the 1961-62, 63-64 and 80-81 seasons against

Benfica

(5-3),

Inter

(3-1) and

Liverpool

(1-0) respectively.

The first final played by the white club against the French

Stade de Reims

was played in Paris and 7 goals were scored in total (4-3).

Rial scored two goals for Madrid, and Di Stéfano and Marquitos scored one each.

Below are the

results of Real Madrid and Liverpool

in each of the years they have played in the European Championship.

THE YEAR BY YEAR IN CHAMPIONS OF THE TWO FINALISTS

Both clubs have been very present since

the beginning of the competition in 1956

.

In 66 years of history, the English club has played 25 seasons, while

Real Madrid

has participated in a total of 51 seasons.

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