Real Madrid vs Liverpool, Champions League final: preview and line-ups, live

This Saturday at 4:00 pm, from the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, Liverpool Y real Madrid faces can be seen at the end of Champions League. The European giants will identify – now – the new king of Europe to succeed Chelsea: Real Madrid, the king of this competition with 13 titles, will face Liverpool, six -time trophy winners. In case the match ends with a tie after 90 minutes, there will be a 30 minute extension. If equality is maintained, the new monarch will be appointed by kicks from the penalty spot.

One hundred and twenty-four games were played between the group stage and the direct elimination stages brought Spanish and English to the final of the 67th edition of the Champions Leaguewherein Meringue will seek his fifth assignment in the last eight years, while the networks They will make their third decisive match in five years, after falling against Madrid in kyiv in 2018 and beating Tottenham a year later at Wanda Metropolitano in the Spanish capital.

For whoever wins in Paris, it will be the end of a good season. The Spanish cast remained in their country’s league and even though Liverpool missed the Premier on the final date, they added two trophies to their showcases: the League Cup and the FA Cup, both of which Chelsea won.

If the last time the two teams met in a decisive match against the Champions League, victory was for the white team, then led by Zinedine Zidane, the only time they fixed the title in the French capital (1981) the victory went in Liverpool, even though that game was played at the Parc des Princes.

The city ​​light dressed to receive thousands of fans of two of the teams with the most followers in the world and the security authorities have deployed a strong operation to prevent incidents or chaos. There will be 6,800 police who will work to make sure nothing is removed. About 40,000 English fans are expected to come to the city without tickets for the match.

The final offers an elite duel on the benches between Carlo Ancelotti and Jürgen Klopp, two men who have already experienced the thrill of winning the Champions League. The Italian did it twice in Milan (in 2003 and 2007) and once in his first stage in Madrid (2014). The German established himself in 2019 with Liverpool after beating two finals: in 2018 with networks and in 2013 with Borussia Dortmund.

Added to the joint battle between these two giant teams is the individual rivalry between the strikers: on the one hand the Frenchman Karim Benzema (top scorer in this edition of the tournament, with 15), on the other hand the Senegalese Sadio Mané and the Egyptian Mohamed Salah. For both Benzema and Mané, a great performance and a win could propel them to the next Ballon d’Or.

On the eve of the duel, Ancelotti admitted that he had already decided on his team’s line-up, although he did not disclose it and said he also did not inform his players. “The faces of the players give me a lot of confidence,” he said. “We need to show our qualities, the ones we showed at the time, where the team has a great commitment, individual quality and players who came in and showed their faces”, he added.

For his part, Klopp tried to remove the pressure on his players. “I don’t know if there is a clear favorite. If you look at the history, the experience of the protagonist and the way of real Madrid the returns are concrete, I will say that real Madrid he’s the favorite. ”In any case, he warns that his team has the weapons to aspire to the title:“ I want us to be on the same level, to be ourselves on the contrary. If we are at our best, it will not be easy to play against us “.