Champions League final: Flashback to Real Madrid´s last European Cup final defeat in Paris… to Liver
We ve been here before. Saturday s Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid will be the third instalment of the two clubs tussling for European football s biggest prize.
That will make this the most common European Cup/Champions League final contest in the competitions collective history.
There was Madrid s 3-1 win in Kyiv four years ago, and in 1981 Liverpool emerged 1-0 victors. And it is that Reds success many will be reminiscing about this week.
The 1981 edition was the last European Cup/Champions League final that Madrid lost – their seven such appearances since then have all been won.
To put that stat into context, no other team has won UEFA s elite competition more than seven times, yet Madrid have done so just since 1998.
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