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Carlo Ancelotti has already decided the
eleven
for the Champions League final and there is no surprise.
Valverde plays and Rodrygo will not because he understands that the coach needs more muscle than dribbling in midfield.
Thus, Madrid comes out with Courtois under sticks;
Carvajal, Militão, Alaba and Mendy in defense;
Casemiro, Kroos, Modric in the middle, as well as Valverde who will play more to the right;
and above Vinicius (on the left) and Benzema.
On Friday, both Klopp and the merengue coach, Carlo Ancelotti, appeared at a press conference.
The Liverpool coach showed his concern about the state of the pitch, while the Real Madrid coach said he was worried before the match, but at the same time confident in his players, whom he later harangued around the central circle of the Stade de France, the scene of the final.
Liverpool will seek their seventh Champions League title,
while the whites dream of the 14th European Cup.
The final takes place this Saturday, May 28, starting at 9:00 p.m. (Movistar and La 1 de RTVE).
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Alisson, Trent Alexander-Arnold, A. Robertson, Fabinho, Ibrahima Konate, Virgil Van Dijk, Henderson, Thiago, Mane, Salah, and Luis Diaz
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Courtois, Dani Carvajal, Ferland Mendy, Casemiro, Eder Militao, Alaba, Modric, Kroos, Benzema, Federico Valverde and Vinicius Junior
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Klopp against the cultivated grass in Olot where the Champions League final is played
Before appearing in the press room, Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp went for a walk on the grass of the Stade de France where the referees for tonight's final were running around.
The German had found out that the grass was very recent and he wanted to try it.
He was not satisfied, and before the journalists he showed his disgust: "I don't know who thought it would be good news to bring a new field," he said.
“Both teams are technical and it won't be the best grass we've ever seen.
Carlo, if you ask him, he will say the same thing, ”he advanced.
But Carlo, when he stood before the journalists, did not say anything of the sort, especially since he had not taken a reconnaissance walk like the German: “We haven't tried it yet, we haven't trained.
I don't think we're going to have a problem,” he said.
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David Alvarez
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The Liverpool fanzone has been a huge party, a festive atmosphere like few others, enlivened with music.
This is an example of how they have experienced it.
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This is how the Orejona has arrived at the Stade de France, the precious trophy....
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The great night of former employee Benzema
Karim Benzema appeared on Friday in the last training session of Saint-Denis parsimonious, in the middle of the white squad, looking at the landscape while a few dozen volunteers shouted at him in chorus from the stands.
An amphitheater that for more than five years looked at him like a stranger, and even with disaffection.
The time he stayed away from the French team due to his involvement in the Valbuena case (blackmail for a sexual video), and for which he was sentenced to one year in prison.
Five years of frustration with his country that he used in recent times to star in one of the most amazing transformations in the modern age of an elite footballer who is already in his thirties.
Madrid's qualification for this Champions League final is, above all, the best expression of its growth on and off the pitch.
Since the last European conquest of the whites in 2018, no one hit such a growth spurt.
And no one saw it coming.
By
Lorenzo Calonge
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Attention
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We already have the official Real Madrid line-up.
It is the eleven expected by Carlo Ancelotti.
No surprises.
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Mohamed Salah, rich and lonely avenger
Mohamed Salah, Mo for friends, left the Stade de France locker room on Friday accompanied by the youngest of his teammates, Harvey Elliott, on his way to Liverpool's last training session before the Champions League final.
He was smiling, like someone embarking on a Caribbean cruise, but despite being surrounded by colleagues, he almost exclusively communicated with Elliott, who at 19 years old watched him admiringly.
Away from the revelry of the group, which mostly ignored him, the Egyptian lived the practice quietly installed in his bubble.
He is usually habitual with soccer professionals who enjoy the privilege of saving energy at the expense of the legs of others.
The isolation is complete when —in addition— the prerogatives that the coach grants him on the pitch in exchange for a goal are complemented by the best salary in the squad.
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Diego Torres
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Spectacular atmosphere of Liverpool fans before the Champions League final... An example!
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The key data from the Champions League final: Benzema's quality, Liverpool's territorial dominance and Madrid's magic
It's been 22 years since Real Madrid played a Champions League final without being favourites.
The data shows that Liverpool arrives with better figures, preferred by statistical models and bets, but also that Madrid has already defeated three rivals that were theoretically superior.
A song by
Kiko Llaneras, Borja Andrino, David Álvarez and Yolanda Clemente (graphics)
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Real Madrid and Liverpool play the final of the finals
There will not be, for now, finals more referred to than those in which Liverpool and Real Madrid challenged each other, who today settle their third assault in the city that lit up the European Cup.
The most repeated final in history between two entities that will add 27 presences in the season prior to the summit (17 the whites, 10 the reds).
On this Saturday's poster (La 1 and Movistar, 9:00 p.m.), nothing more timely than the illustrious Paris as the scene of ancestry for two mythological institutions.
If the English conceived football, it was France who consecrated the European Cup and Real Madrid who, from 1956 to the present day, has sought the club championship par excellence.
And no one represents English football better than the legendary Liverpool of the six Orejonas, one from Milan, seven from the royal Madrid and one above Bayern.
Writes
Jose Samano
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In the official store near the Stade de France, a product has already finished...
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This is the medal that the organization will deliver to the finalists of the Champions League...
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For all those who have not been able to travel to Paris, giant screens have been installed at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium so that they can follow the white team from a distance.
Although there is still a long way to go before the match begins, the first fans are already arriving at the stadium.
Meanwhile, in Paris...
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The English fans liven up the hours with music.
Few cities have such a music-loving tradition as Liverpool, where, for example, the Beatles were born.
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Hello everyone!
I'll take over from Eleonora and I'll be with you until the end of the match, the final of the finals, the final tie between Liverpool and Real Madrid.
There are five hours left to kick off at the Stade de France in Paris, where both teams will try to add one more wound to their heraldry.
Madrid adds 13, more than any other;
Liverpool has six, the same as Bayern and one less than Milan, second in the table.
Let's go there!
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Round trip to Paris: of the 17 finals played, Real Madrid has won 13 Champions Leagues
From 1956 at the Parc des Princes to 2022 at the Stade de France, a journey through all the times the white team has reached the last season of its fetish title
The first title (with a comeback included), the memorable exhibition against Eintracht in Glasgow (7-3), the surprising Madrid ye-yé, Mitjatovic's outburst, Zidane's volley, Ramos's header... Since 1956, that of Paris in 2022 is the seventeenth final of the European Cup (in the old format and the new Champions) for Real Madrid.
This is a tour of each of them.
By Lorenzo Calonge and David Alvarez.
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A different match in which anything can happen
A Champions League final is so big that it becomes more than just a football match, where the difference is usually made by those who already know what they are facing |
What happens when the finalists have won it so many times?
It's football, there are eleven, the usual lines and a regulation pitch, but it's not a regular game, it usually weighs on those who play it for the first time.
In recent years, Manchester City and PSG have already played it, they have lost it, but they have already played it... and the experience will serve them for the next one.
From the day after the semifinal, from the moment the feat of going to the final ceases to take place, there is not a day that the player does not think about the grand final.
The wait is eternal, there are many days left, and the preview is going to give a lot to talk about: you visualize actions, imagine events, you see yourself raising the cup and also regretting not having won it... that and many more things go through everyone's head of the protagonists.
By Santi Canizares.
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La visita de Florentino Pérez
El presidente del Real Madrid, como de costumbre, ha acudido al hotel de concentración del equipo blanco para saludar a toda la plantilla antes de la charla táctica y de la salida hacia el estadio para disputar la final.
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Klopp contra el césped cultivado en Olot en el que se juega la final de la Champions
El entrenador del Liverpool se queja de la hierba que se terminó de instalar el miércoles en el Stade de France: “No sé quién pensó que sería buena noticia traer un nuevo campo”
Antes de comparecer en la sala de prensa, el entrenador del Liverpool, Jürgen Klopp, se fue a dar un paseo por la hierba del Stade de France por la que correteaban los árbitros de la final de esta noche. El alemán se había enterado de que el césped era muy reciente y quería probarlo. No le satisfizo, y ante los periodistas mostró su disgusto: “No sé quién pensó que sería buena noticia traer un nuevo campo”, dijo. “Ambos equipos son técnicos y no será el mejor césped que hemos visto en nuestra vida. Carlo, si le preguntáis, va a decir lo mismo”, adelantó. Pero Carlo, cuando se plantó ante los periodistas, no dijo nada parecido, sobre todo porque no se había dado un paseo de reconocimiento como el alemán: “Todavía no lo hemos probado, no nos hemos entrenado. No creo que vayamos a tener problema”, dijo. Por David Álvarez.
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Duels on the terraces of Paris
Six and a half hours before the final between Liverpool and Real Madrid, the fans challenge each other on the terraces.
The day is sunny in Paris.
Our editor David Álvarez is there.
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Alaba and the spirit (of the chair)
The Real Madrid defender celebrated reaching the quarterfinals of the Champions League by taking a chair from the security officers and raising it screaming.
The image has been repeated game after game.
Even this Saturday before the final
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