HASWith its fourteen Champions Leagues, won since the first edition of the competition in 1956, Real Madrid has won everywhere and at all times. The Madrid club has won its fourteen titles across the continent, in Spain, Italy, Germany, France, the Netherlands and even Portugal. In countries where football matters. It is therefore surprising to note that it has not yet done so in the most significant of them, in Great Britain, and more precisely in the cradle of world football: England.
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History seems written: the Merengues will repair this anomaly to assert their supremacy on English soil, Saturday 1er June at Wembley Stadium, near London, during the final of the 69th edition of the C1 against Borussia Dortmund. Facing the German club, 5th in its championship and which no one expected with the clothes of the finalist at the start of the season, Real is naturally the big favorite for a meeting which it controls head and shoulders, since He has not lost a Champions League final since 1981.
In a decade and thanks to the coaching mandates of Zinédine Zidane and Carlo Ancelotti – the Italian could win his fifth C1 on Saturday – the club from the Spanish capital has reconnected with its brilliant past in the competition. Reminding those who doubted the unshakable bond that exists between the two. Real Madrid is the Champions League, and the Champions League is Real Madrid.
A collective always persevering and experienced
In recent years, this linked destiny has mutated into mysticism and carries Real in all circumstances. In 2022, it was the year of Karim Benzema and there were plenty of twists and turns against Paris Saint-Germain, Manchester City and Chelsea. In the final, Thibaut Courtois was touched by grace and single-handedly repelled all the attempts of the Liverpool attackers to allow his team to win a fourteenth title.
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This season, the magic has once again worked. Real can count on a collective that is always persevering and experienced, a priori much superior to a Borussia Dortmund that is as surprising as it is consistent. The Spanish champion club experienced too intense emotions during the previous rounds to let the title slip away now. Facing Leipzig and Manchester City, in the round of 16 and then in the quarter-finals, Real were often mishandled and went through a hole. Against Bayern Munich in the next round, he did what he does best: two goals in the last two minutes of the match to reach the final.
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