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Liverpool vs Real Madrid Live Score, Champions League Final: Liverpool and Real Madrid ready for mouth-watering final
UEFA Champions League Final, Liverpool vs Real Madrid Live Updates: Liverpool and Real Madrid meet in the Champions League final in Paris today, 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 14th European Cup victory. The final promises to be a fitting climax to the European season, with Liverpool looking to win a second Champions League in four seasons just days after they narrowly lost out to Manchester City in the Premier League title race.Read Less
TEAM NEWS | Fabinho and Thiago return for Liverpool
Liverpool midfielders Fabinho and Thiago Alcantara have recovered from injury and will start against Real Madrid in today's Champions League final. Thiago was substituted with a muscle problem in the first half of Sunday's final Premier League game against Wolverhampton Wanderers and Fabinho has not played since hobbling off with a hamstring issue in the win at Aston Villa on May 10. Ibrahima Konate will start in defence alongside Virgil van Dijk.
Real Madrid fans cheer before the Champions League final match between Liverpool and Real Madrid at the Stade de France in Saint Denis near Paris.
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Real Madrid XI (4-3-3): Thibaut Courtois; Dani Carvajal, Eder Militao, David Alaba, Ferland Mendy; Casemiro, Toni Kroos, Luka Modric; Fede Valverde, Karim Benzema (capt), Vinicius Junior
Substitutes: Lunin, Hazard, Nacho, Asensio, Marcelo, Lucas Vazquez, Bale, Dani Ceballos, Rodrygo, Camavinga, Isco, Mariano
Liverpool XI (4-3-3): Alisson Becker; Trent Alexander-Arnold, Ibrahima Konate, Virgil van Dijk, Andy Robertson; Fabinho, Thiago Alcantara, Jordan Henderson (capt); Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane, Luis Diaz
Substitutes: Kelleher, Milner, Keita, Firmino, Gomez, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Jones, Minamino, Jota, Tsimikas, Matip, Elliott.
And here's Real Madrid Starting XI
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Champions League final: The form of Liverpool vs the grit of Real Madrid
That Liverpool go into the Champions League final this time as the form favourites is no secret. They have had a remarkable season and have been top class. They narrowly missed out of keeping their chances of a historic and unprecedented quadruple alive when they were pipped to the Premier League title by perennial rivals Manchester City by just one point, but that might just give Jurgen Klopp and his team that extra bit of motivation to throw everything including the kitchen sink at winning the holy grail of European club football. On the other side though stand a gritty Real Madrid. The Spanish giants, who are the most successful team in the history of the competition (13 titles) have defied logic and pulled themselves back from the brink of elimination in the knockouts three times from the Round of 16 to the semi-finals, knocking out teams like PSG, Chelsea and Manchester City to make sure that they made their way to yet another Champions League final.
This will be the third final between the clubs, who also met in Paris in 1981, when the English side triumphed thanks to Alan Kennedy's goal at the Parc des Princes.
Head to Head
Ancelotti can become the first coach to win the Champions League four times, having also triumphed with AC Milan in 2003 and 2007 and with Real Madrid in his first spell in 2014 -- he is currently level on three wins with Zinedine Zidane and Bob Paisley.
He [Karim Benzema] is for sure one of the best players in the world, probably the best forward in the world, and I'm sure the most underestimated player maybe in history. He has more personality and leadership on and off the field now but what has not changed is his quality and he remains as humble as ever.
UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin
Real Madrid are pinning their hopes on Benzema
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. Yet Real are pinning their hopes on Benzema, the 34-year-old Frenchman who has 15 goals in the competition this season. He has scored 44 times altogether this season to lead Real to the Spanish title and is the favourite to win the Ballon d'Or.
It is a great success for all of us to be here. We know very well the demands at this club, the history, but for us to get here is huge. We are convinced that the season has already been very, very good but now we are very close to getting the big one.
Real Madrid manager Ancelotti
Real Madrid's Karim Benzema is the top-scorer of the season so far
While Liverpool saw off Inter Milan, Benfica and Villarreal in the knockout rounds, Carlo Ancelotti's Real produced a series of memorable comebacks to beat Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea and then Manchester City.
Real Madrid are looking to win their fifth Champions League in nine seasons and, ominously, have won on all of their last seven final appearances.
Liverpool have bitter memories of losing 1-3 to Real Madrid in Kyiv in 2018, when Mohamed Salah went off injured in the first half following a challenge by the now-departed Sergio Ramos. Gareth Bale scored twice for the Spaniards and errors by goalkeeper Loris Karius undermined Liverpool's challenge.
Liverpool can win their seventh European Cup, which would take them level with AC Milan and leave only Real with more victories.
Liverpool fans in Paris
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