⚽UEFA Champions League Discussion Thread -- 2021/22 winner - Real Madrid!

[Daniel91]

What a final and what a match, amazing!
Liverpool were better and should have won, exactly the same as PSG, Chelsea and Manchester City were better against Real before and they should also have won by all football indicators.
Real's team in the Champions League this season is truly a master of survival and a cat with 9 lives  
Still, I’ll reveal to you the secret to why Liverpool didn’t win yesterday and become European champions?
Ready?
That's because they sold Lovren too soon.
In the last 10 years, no team has won the Champions League if it has not had at least one Croatian player in the team.
When they had Lovren, the Liverpool team became European champions in a match against Tottenham a few years ago.
Yesterday, without a single Croatian player in the team, they had no chance against Real.
Sorry guys, I'm kidding a bit of course but I don't know how else to explain what happened yesterday.

Here is what the Croatian Football Association has to say about this: 

https://twitter.com/HNS_CFF/status/1530965089838317569/photo/1

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[judas]

Liverpool dominated the finale but it wasn't enough for winning the title at the end. Real Madrid made them sad again after a few years. I was wondering if Liverpool would be able to have their revenge but it didn't happen. I have a really big respect to Real Madrid now. Because they have been the most impressive team in the Champions League so far. This was their 8th championship in this tournament also. Liverpool players must be very frustrated and disappointed about this result after trying everything they could. However I felt like they could have done better than this too.

[bekti3]

Liverpool played better football this year, I wish they were champions. But Real Madrid's goalkeeper played with a very good performance. Courtois was the most important and critical player in winning this match
It doesn't matter how many positions you have or how many shots you take, the important thing is to score. Liverpool failed to score and therefore did not become champions.

Courtois has truly been a frightening specter for Salah Mane and even the other strikers they have included.
Madrid's performance was quite solid at their back line because even almost some of the players piled up there, especially when they managed to win 1 goal.
Liverpool's forwards are quite frustrated with it, moreover Courtois' performance is also really worthy of thumbs up and indeed he is MOTM in this match

[KTChampions]

What was that at the Karim Benzema's off-side goal. Football have got such analytical steps to its officiating and even the referee was confused in this one. Analysts states that, there have to be 2 players between a forward to be on side and this wasn't the case with Virgil to have moved past Benzema and kept him offside. The question was basically about the rebounded ball from Febinho. The referee's did good to have come by that decision.

Forget it, once the game is over and Real Madrid is declared the winner then nothing else can be changed. Referee decisions are sometimes detrimental, but sometimes also beneficial.

Not really. It is important to discuss this episode - can you imagine what would happen if such a goal was not scored against Real Madrid? It would be the scandal of the century and we would have been listening for another year about how "Perez bought everyone."
I believe that this goal was scored completely according to the rules (which we found out with fucking surprise in the final of the League of Nations) and a clean goal was stolen from Benzema.

[Dunamisx]

Real Madrid was just lucky. Liverpool would have won that match with a very high goal margin

Liverpool had got a good opportunity to make a score at the first half but all efforts wasn't yielding but instead resulting into failed attempts, they dominated the beginning and we all hope the game will really be in favour of Liverpool that yesterday not until they whole thing begins to change after second half

Real Madrid was not a fantastic team in that match and they couldn't create much chances but they maximized the few they had

if we consider that match by giving a closer look we could see how Liverpool made an outstanding performance all through, what really got me upset was that despite the activeness of Liverpool in that match they never make it an opportunity for a score, how i wish they won the match because it is deserving for them considering their performance, aside the goal Real Madrid had was the attempted goal by Benzema which resulted into offside, but Liverpool had made the whole match with fun in their play.

[Pulsar77]

Real Madrid had a very poor performance generally but they still used their chances in a very effective way. They did the best thing they do always. They scored the goal by a very quick counter-attack. This was the thing I was hoping for to happen because it would make the game more enjoyable. I was expecting to see Liverpool playing their usual dominant game after that goal in the end. I'm afraid Liverpool weren't that much impressive still. They had some important chances and Courtois didn't let them score. Congratulations to Real Madrid and their fans!

[izsara]

Not really. It is important to discuss this episode - can you imagine what would happen if such a goal was not scored against Real Madrid? It would be the scandal of the century and we would have been listening for another year about how "Perez bought everyone."
I believe that this goal was scored completely according to the rules (which we found out with fucking surprise in the final of the League of Nations) and a clean goal was stolen from Benzema.

In this case, there is indeed some controversy there, especially about the handball debate for Madrid and Benzema's Offside goal there and it is certain that both sides of the fans will not accept this lightly.
But apart from that now something like this was pointless. Madrid are now champions and that is a fact. regardless of the referee's leadership is fair or not everyone has their own judgment

[mm2543363580]

Real Madrid was just lucky. Liverpool would have won that match with a very high goal margin

Liverpool had got a good opportunity to make a score at the first half but all efforts wasn't yielding but instead resulting into failed attempts, they dominated the beginning and we all hope the game will really be in favour of Liverpool that yesterday not until they whole thing begins to change after second half

Real Madrid was not a fantastic team in that match and they couldn't create much chances but they maximized the few they had

if we consider that match by giving a closer look we could see how Liverpool made an outstanding performance all through, what really got me upset was that despite the activeness of Liverpool in that match they never make it an opportunity for a score, how i wish they won the match because it is deserving for them considering their performance, aside the goal Real Madrid had was the attempted goal by Benzema which resulted into offside, but Liverpool had made the whole match with fun in their play.

THis seems the fastest moving forum. A lot of discussion and very quick too.
Congrats to Real Madrid for taking the trophy home. They are the lucky one. Good play Liverpool - so close yet so far. Luck sat on Madrid side.

[Sirait]

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In this case, there is indeed some controversy there, especially about the handball debate for Madrid and Benzema's Offside goal there and it is certain that both sides of the fans will not accept this lightly.
But apart from that now something like this was pointless. Madrid are now champions and that is a fact. regardless of the referee's leadership is fair or not everyone has their own judgment

this is really a hot issue from yesterday and there are still a lot of fans of both teams having a great debate on social media about this. btw, it's no longer important to bring this issue to the surface because Madrid have been confirmed as champions and Liverpool will have to try hard next season again.

[trendcoin]

Greece won the 2004 European Football Championship by putting a bus in front of the defense. Real Madrid played a similar tactic against Liverpool. They put a bus in front of the defense and tried to score with counter attacks. I think they didn't play with a tactic worthy of the final, but at the end of the day they won. After all, the most important thing in games like this is to win. :) Congratulations to Real Madrid and Real Madrid fans on winning their 14th Champions League title.

[W Jr.]

Liverpool played better football this year, I wish they were champions. But Real Madrid's goalkeeper played with a very good performance. Courtois was the most important and critical player in winning this match
It doesn't matter how many positions you have or how many shots you take, the important thing is to score. Liverpool failed to score and therefore did not become champions.

Statistical data doesn't make any sense, even for the final match. Even if you shoot 100 shots, it doesn't matter if you can't score. We saw that in this final match as well.  Real Madrid scored with few chances and protected it with good defense. They became champions because they were able to keep the score, it's that simple.

[KTChampions]

Based on strategy and experience Madrid is unquestionable like you said they've done it for the 3rd time vs PSG, Manchester City and Liverpool. But luck here is with the goalkeeper based on Madrid record almost always conceded in the champions league but somehow Liverpool can't score.
They have a world class striker who has won several competitions recently of course there is no doubt right? Well this is why this win can be called luck, apart from strategy of course.

This is one-sided analytics 
Liverpool have appeared in three finals this season and failed to score at least one goal. Taking into account the fact that the first two finals ended in penalty shootouts, it turns out that Liverpool cannot score at least one goal during 120+120+90=330 minutes of playing time. It's 5 and a half hours. In doing so, you mention the "luck" of Real Madrid, but not the problems of Liverpool.

[terrorJR]

Liverpool played better football this year, I wish they were champions. But Real Madrid's goalkeeper played with a very good performance. Courtois was the most important and critical player in winning this match
It doesn't matter how many positions you have or how many shots you take, the important thing is to score. Liverpool failed to score and therefore did not become champions.

Statistical data doesn't make any sense, even for the final match. Even if you shoot 100 shots, it doesn't matter if you can't score. We saw that in this final match as well.  Real Madrid scored with few chances and protected it with good defense. They became champions because they were able to keep the score, it's that simple.

In the end the statistics don't help anything because of course the winner is determined by goals and not statistics

Quite aware of this and it's true Liverpool played a very good match and their chances were many and their possession of the ball was terrible considering the club they played against but the problem in this case no one was able to penetrate Courtois there which made them lose in contrast to Alison who was even in this match was quite relaxed but when Madrid had the opportunity they could immediately make a goal there

[Distraction]

I'm very contented with seeing the team I was favouring for the title winning it at the end.    I was worried about Real Madrid after I watched that quite poor performance against Liverpool. Honestly I expected to see Liverpool finding more goal opportunities than them in this match but I believe that this was too much. Real Madrid should be grateful for Vinicius to score that goal otherwise they would have been under a bigger threat. I made a bet on Real Madrid to win the title and it wasn't easy to watch this match for me.    I'm happy for especially Benzema as he deserved this title by his awesome effort until this round.

[harapan]

Most Manchester United fans are so happy with the loss of Liverpool. Liverpool has quadruple dream's but ended up winning only two.
Chelsea had some block's from hazard winning the champions league, I think a bit higher than what Liverpool won from both the FA Cup and the Carabao Cup finals.
Liverpool did well this season, but couldn't outshine Real Madrid.

[borovichok]

Would have been a shame not seeing Tottenham Hotspur in next season champions League, because I really think that they will do very great in that competition because they have now have Antonio Conte, he is the kind of coach that they need,s coach that can compete with Klopp and Pep Guadiola,if you pay attention to the transfer of Ivan perisic you will know that he is ready already, Ivan perisic is a winner and he is age enough to know his job, he want a left center back when he have a very good Ben Davies but still he wants Bastonni,I think is because he wants more competition and improvements so I think Tottenham Hotspur will be far better next season.

[baeva]

Congratulations to all the Real Madrid fans. I believed in Liverpool until the last, but it didn't happen. Obviously Liverpool were much stronger in this match, but that was not enough. 19 shots against 2, 1 of which was on target and was decisive, you don't even need stats, you just had to watch the match, it was obvious) A real shame about the Liverpool players

Actually Liverpool played extremely well in the match, they were unlucky, but their performance was excellent. All praise gose to Courtois for making some great saves and as well save Real Madrid.
Congratulations to all Real Madrid players, it was a great season as the won Laliga Title and Champions league. I can see Marcello was very happy as has his last Champions league for Real Madrid.

Yes, the goalkeeper made some great saves that saved Real Madrid in some moments, but I don't understand why Courtois is considered one of the best players in this match. For me personally, Vinicius was clearly the best, he constantly created dangerous chances and even scored, he led Real Madrid to victory, but Liverpool were much stronger

[sana54210]

I still can't believe that Zidane has 3 to be fair . Ancelotti is great, but if Zidane kept going, he would have maybe another title, or maybe he wouldn't, he could have moved to another team and maybe won one. Now that PSG kept Mbappe, I really really really want to see Zidane manages PSG, and do it for many years.

I know for sure that they would be good enough to listen to Zidane, someone who won it 3 times the moment he started managing a team, and became one of the best ever. By comparison SIR! alexferguson has only 2, that's how great Zidane is. Ancelotti is of course a marvelous manager, but he has been managing for so many years, I am sure that that record will be broken in the next 10 years or so.

[Avirunes]

Congratulations to all the Real Madrid fans. I believed in Liverpool until the last, but it didn't happen. Obviously Liverpool were much stronger in this match, but that was not enough. 19 shots against 2, 1 of which was on target and was decisive, you don't even need stats, you just had to watch the match, it was obvious) A real shame about the Liverpool players

Actually Liverpool played extremely well in the match, they were unlucky, but their performance was excellent. All praise gose to Courtois for making some great saves and as well save Real Madrid.
Congratulations to all Real Madrid players, it was a great season as the won Laliga Title and Champions league. I can see Marcello was very happy as has his last Champions league for Real Madrid.

Yes, the goalkeeper made some great saves that saved Real Madrid in some moments, but I don't understand why Courtois is considered one of the best players in this match. For me personally, Vinicius was clearly the best, he constantly created dangerous chances and even scored, he led Real Madrid to victory, but Liverpool were much stronger

Courtois saved a lot of saves and most of them from short range. It's not easy to face Liverpool's attack and save those shots easily. Honestly I didn't thought Courtois is such a good player as he has done some of the mistakes in past that has costed Madrid matches but in the finals he really pulled out an amazing performance.

[EdenHazard]

I still can't believe that Zidane has 3 to be fair . Ancelotti is great, but if Zidane kept going, he would have maybe another title, or maybe he wouldn't, he could have moved to another team and maybe won one. Now that PSG kept Mbappe, I really really really want to see Zidane manages PSG, and do it for many years.

I know for sure that they would be good enough to listen to Zidane, someone who won it 3 times the moment he started managing a team, and became one of the best ever. By comparison SIR! alexferguson has only 2, that's how great Zidane is. Ancelotti is of course a marvelous manager, but he has been managing for so many years, I am sure that that record will be broken in the next 10 years or so.

Well there must be yet another irrejectable offer come from psg for zidane , that is for sure just like what they did to mbappe with its insane clause , zidane might have full power to spend money so he can get what he thinks needed to win a champions league trophy for psg.

Next year gonna be wild , with haaland at manchester city and zidane might takeover psg .. the title contenders for champions league getting heated!