Liverpool-Real Madrid: A different match in which anything can happen

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.

Your family wants to go to the game, friends appear everywhere and even the one who says that he played with you in the neighborhood, and that he already has a trip and a hotel, is begging you if you have any tickets.

It's not that you have a bad memory, you don't remember him and it's probably because it's a lie.

He has also approached a member of your family, this has been sensitive, and he asks if there are any tickets.

Everything is distraction.

Your usual brand of boots asks you to wear some commemorative ones that day.

But why am I happy with the ones that have brought me here?

Well, because the brand and marketing say this and that.

People on the street say that 4-0, that you are the best.

And the true truth is that the rival of a Champions League final has fabric, not everyone arrives there, only the one who is fittest in all of Europe.

And above is a transatlantic curdled in my battles.

4-0?

This one doesn't know what we're up against.

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In the last training: coincidence, there are no casualties, there have been all year, but today they are all available because nobody wants to miss the appointment.

What happened?

Has the medical body gone to work?

No, it has happened that it is a different game, that what happens will go down in history, and the footballers have chosen their profession with the dream of being able to play this game sometime.

Already on the way to the stadium, the siesta has not been relaxed, too many things on my mind, too much time before the bus starts.

There are a lot of people and to avoid problems you are already there two hours before, not like always, that to avoid waiting in the locker room you arrive with little time to get dressed and go out to warm up.

The warm-up is a relief, you begin to recover the true sensations, have contact with the ball, break a sweat, familiarize yourself with the scenario.

You needed it.

The head has not rested these days until now, until football begins to occupy its space.

Everything has been distractions, impossible to lead a normal life, those who have come across you have asked you about the event.

And it is so big, a Champions League final is so big, that it becomes something more than a football match, where the difference is usually made by those who have already participated in one and know what they are facing.

That's why getting there and kissing the saint is so difficult, that's why he usually wins the one who has already played it, and who usually lost it the first time.

I wonder today, what happens when two teams that have won it so many times face each other?

It happens that everything can happen.

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