Real Madrid don’t play Champions League finals. Real Madrid win them. And that is an undeniable fact. Ever since the elite football competition took its present form (which we are slowly saying goodbye to), Los Blancos haven’t lost the final game! Tonight, at the mythical Wembley against Borussia Dortmund, they’ll push for the ninth title since 1998. They are at 8/8 now. Impressive, huh?Bellingham, Rodrigo, and Vinicius on one side. Adeyemi, Sancho and Fullkrug on the other. The best of the best on the ultimate stage 🙌🎨 @17thandOak || #UCLfinal pic.twitter.com/VBhSj50eZQ— UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) June 1, 2024 To be honest, Carlo Ancelotti is probably happy to see Dortmund as his rival in the showdwon, but Edin Terzic has almost the same feeling when gazing at the Royals, believe it or not.The only team they were desperate to avoid facing in the final were their nemessis, Bayern Munich. When the Bavarians appear in front of them, Borussia’s head spins, they lose balance and a fall is imminent. Exactly 11 years ago, at the same venue like tonight, Franck Ribery and Arjen Robben knocked Dortmund down by pulling off that trick in the dying minutes of the Champions League final.##NAJAVA_MECA_8136613##Mats Hummels, certainly, and Marco Reus, for sure, are playing their last game tonight for the club where they have jointly appeared 1,000 times. Hummels and Reus are the only players in the current Borussia squad who know what it’s like to play in the UCL final. They are footballers who know how to beat Real Madrid in the Champions League. It was the Spaniards that Borussia managed to top in the semi-final thanks to Lewandowski’s staggering four goals to reach the 2013 Wembley showdown.”So many teams wanted to play against us. Fortunately, we are good guys and we made it to the finals so that as many of them as possible would get a chance,” joked Hummels recently.Vini 😅@vinijr || #UCLfinal pic.twitter.com/qlWmymPy6n— UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) May 31, 2024 On the other hand, Real Madrid are the closest thing to vampires you can see in the modern-day world. Not once have they climbed up from the brink of the abyss this season, especially in the UCL, where they bounced back on several occasions to survive battles with Manchester City and Bayern Munich.If Carlo Ancelotti could not be defeated by Cholo Simeone and Jurgen Klopp in the 2014 and 2022 finals, perhaps young Edin Terzic could find something close to a flaw, a weak point of that Madrid vampire. They need that sort of magic to make the Wembley miracle possible.UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE – FINALSaturday 22:00: (4.95) Dortmund (4.10) Real Madrid (1.75)***odds are subject to change***
