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Real Madrid and Liverpool play the final of the finals

2022-05-28T03:54:57.087Z


The white team and the 'red', two mythical clubs today very balanced, settle in Paris, cradle of the Champions League, the most repeated decisive match of the European Cup


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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.

England, Paris, Madrid.

The three backbones of the Cup. A brave Englishman lit the fuse when on December 13, 1954, the great Billy Wright's Wolverhampton Wanderers won 3-2, at their Molineux stadium, in a friendly against the magical Honved from Budapest of the Immortal Puskas.

Wolves were proclaimed by the local press as the best club in the world.

The newspaper

L'Équipe

picked up the glove and regulated the órdago launched by the English, of which Santiago Bernabéu made the flag like no other.

England took a course to enter the global tournament and its first title did not come until 1968 —Manchester United, a year after the Scottish Celtic of Glasgow—.

Such is the prestige of Madrid and Liverpool, largely due to the fetishism of the European Cup, that both have an overwhelming service record.

It is no coincidence that it is a Real Madrid player like Carlo Ancelotti who can become the coach with the most gold medals in Saint-Denis.

If he won his fourth Cup, he would leave behind another very real player like Zinedine Zidane and Bob Paisley, the eternal emblem of Liverpool's exclusive Boot Room.

That boot shed that served as a round table for the deliberations of Bill Shankly, Paisley himself, Reuben Bennett, Tom Saunders, Joe Fagan, Ronnie Moran, Roy Evans... All instructors from the Mersey club.

Apart from the accounting of the titles, the mystic spins these two teams.

Two resistant entities like few others when there was a drought of successes.

Or when, in the Reds' case, the tragedies came (Heysel, Hillsborough).

Liverpool never walked alone, like Madrid never stopped coming back.

Real's epic comebacks have been unsuccessfully discussed even in the afterlife.

But, with the permission of United and his double terminal whiplash against Bayern in 1999, there was no final more heroic than that of 2005. In Istanbul, with the soundtrack of

You'll never walk alone

in vein, the Anfield team was resurrected to overcome three goals behind at the break.

It was against Milan that Ancelotti trained, the emblem of abnormal white normality this season.

From prodigy to prodigy until PSG's Paris, after passing through London and a sector of Manchester.

If the top in view of Ancelotti as Real coach is not accidental, it will not be adventitious that up to nine white players enter the Olympus of those who have won five Cups.

If Carvajal, Isco, Bale, Benzema, Marcelo, Modric, Casemiro, Kroos and Nacho succeed, they would join six other madridistas who achieved it without changing shirts and would stay one short of the infinite Gento.

A lot to rewind between Liverpool —the last one that defeated the meringues in a final (1981)— and Real Madrid —which melted its opponent in 2018—.

On this occasion, Jürgen Klopp's team will present themselves to the match of the century for centuries (the next one will be about to arrive) with a goalkeeper.

On the Liverpool side, everyone trusts that this time Salah will not get hurt after half an hour.

Liverpool, as the German coach recognized this Friday, looks whole, even with the participation of the limping Thiago and Fabinho.

Klopp, in the style of his glorious ancestors in office, has managed to put together a musketeer team, in which he computes more the gregarious than the soloists.

There are some, and very good ones, like Van Dijk, Salah and Mané, but the general progress is what gives volume to this Liverpool.

It is likely that the experts only enlisted the first two mentioned in a Madrid starting lineup of Benzema, Modric, Vinicius... At Real, with all the players shouting "present!"

in Paris, divinities proliferated.

With some 100,000 fans arriving in the French capital —the red majority, the white fans are much more reluctant to travel without a ticket— in Saint-Denis, with capacity for 80,000 spectators, that stadium that Zidane inaugurated in January 1988 with a goal against Spain there will be a lot to tell.

From now on the final par excellence among the 67 sealed with only 22 enthroned teams.

Almost nothing.

The final of the finals.

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