Real Madrid-Liverpool: time, TV, formations and how to watch the match online

The day many football fans have been waiting for has arrived. Is that Real Madrid y Liverpool They will collide this Saturday in the grand final of the UEFA Champions League. The stage will be France, more precisely in the mythical Stade de France, which has capacity for 81 thousand people.

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Real Madrid-Liverpol: time and TV

The fact that everyone wants to know. The final is scheduled for 4:00 p.m. (Argentina time) and will be broadcast by ESPN.

Two giants of European football who want glory

Real Madrid won the Champions League 13 times. An unreal figure and almost impossible to believe if you take into account that the second in the ranking is Milan with 7 trophies. Its dominance in Europe is total and it will take several decades to see if the trend takes another direction.

Merengue have won four in the last eight years: one with Carlo Ancelotti -current coach- and three with Zinedine Zidane, an absolute idol who knew how to learn from the Italian coach for three seasons as field assistant. This Saturday the team from the Spanish capital will seek their 14th Champions League. Simply incredible.

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The 13 Real Madrid titles were achieved in the following seasons: 1955-56, 1956-57, 1957-58, 1958-59, 1959-60, 1965-66, 1997-98, 1999-00, 2001-02, 2013 -14, 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18.

Six of these titles correspond to the denomination as european cup and seven are from when the tournament began to be called Champions League.

Liverpool is not far behind. With six conquests, he occupies a privileged place in third place in the ranking of the most winners, along with the always impressive Bayern Munich. The last one was in 2019, a final in which the Reds beat Tottenham 1-0.

The English team has six maximum continental titles: four under the format of European Cups (1976-1977, 1977-1978, 1980-1981, 1983-1984) and two as Champions League (2004-2005 and 2018/19). In addition, Liverpool agreed to three finals in which they fell (1984-85, 2006-07 and 2017-2018).

Real Madrid-Liverpool: all the times they met

In total, Spanish and English they met eight times, all in the Champions League. Real Madrid is up in the record by one game: there were four wins for the White House, three for the Reds and one tie.

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Merengue’s victories happened in the 2014 group stage (1-0 and 3-0); in the aforementioned final (3-1) and in the first leg of the 2021 quarterfinals (3-1).

Liverpool’s triumphs are older. The first occurred in the definition of the European Cup (now known as the Champions League) in 1981 (1-0). The remaining two were in the second round of 2009 (4-0 and 1-0).

The equality was in the last game in which they faced each other: the second leg of the 2021 quarterfinals. It was 0-0 in England and, after 3-1 in the first leg, Madrid qualified.

Liverpool vs. Real Madrid: everything you need to know

Liverpool: Alisson Becker; Trent Alexander-Arnold, Ibrahima Konaté, Virgil Van Dijk, Andrew Robertson; Thiago Alcántara, Robert Henderson, Naby Keïta; Mohammed Salah, Sadio Mané and Luis Díaz. DT: Jürgen Klopp.

Real Madrid: Thibaut Courtois; Dani Carvajal, Éder Militao, Nacho Fernández, Ferland Mendy; Casemiro, Luka Modric, Toni Kroos; Federico Valverde, Karim Benzema and Vinicius Junior. DT: Carlo Ancelotti.

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