Real Madrid delivered the line-up very soon, when there were more than two hours to go before the start of the final. The cards, face up right away. And he arrived well before Liverpool at the stadium, almost with his hands in his pockets. Six finals played and won in the 21st century (seven with yesterday’s) provided the white team with the serenity with which routine acts are usually undertaken. He even entered the game calmly, as if allowing the English to wear themselves out with fits of fury. It was a shake of the ‘reds’ in the first half and part of the second, but without goals. In other words, the feeling that the final would go to the whites in the end became inevitable. We’ve seen it so many times…
The history of Madrid in this Champions League has been marked by extraordinary moments and somehow the game progressed waiting for the magic moment, which could be a monstrous mistake by the opposite goalkeeper or an agonizing shot. It came from a shot that became a pass to Vinicius half an hour before the curtain falls. Madrid looks at its rivals and endures them as if they were milk teeth: they will fall.
much to admire
It doesn’t help much to analyze the game of this Ancelotti team, the coach with the most Champions in the world, look where. Yesterday he barely shot on goal, a shot and nothing more, and found himself with the neons of the scoreboard shining in his favor, raising another Champions League. It’s hard to decode this football. He is a winner, but it is not at all clear what can be learned. Much to admire, certainly, but there are no more lessons to be learned than mental toughness and pride in the jersey. And you either have it or you don’t.
On the other side, Courtois he was forced to work piecework from the first to the last minute. Is he Messi under sticks. The best goalie in the world. No discussion possible. Tremendous interventions. A Salah He was frustrated by the revenge he so longed for. Today he must regret having asked for Madrid for the final.
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«Do not disappoint them», used to say the mythical bill shankly to their players before games. He was referring to the ‘reds’ fans, generally working class, who had made the effort to save a piece of their pay for a ticket. shankly he had the class consciousness that he also treasures Jurgen Klopp. The German arrived at Anfield in 2015 and the first thing he asked for was to be called ‘The normal one’, as opposed to Jose’s pomposity Mourinho and his ‘The special one’.
Klopp He straightened the course of Liverpool. It has led him to reach three finals in five years, win one of them and, in short, build a great team that has not won more because it becomes a Christian who has come across a Messiwhich is the Manchester City of Guardiola. That at home. In Europe, his stone in the shoe is Madrid. A tank of competitiveness and efficiency, a wizard of mental games that not even the organizational chaos and the delay in the initial whistle lost concentration. He is an amazing champion.