The final of this season’s UEFA Champions League will be played tonight with La Liga Champions, Real Madrid slugging it out with a prominent team from the German Bundesliga Borussia Dortmund at Wembley Stadium in England.
UCL serial winners, Real Madrid are looking to win it for a record-extending 15th time in their history while Dortmund are looking to caress the trophy for the second time in the club’s history.
Madrid have made it to the final 6 times in the last 11 years and that is unprecedented.
However, many didn’t give Dortmund a chance to get to the finals this season but the die schwarzelben have proved bookmakers wrong by defeating other favourites on their way to reach the final.
The Bundesliga upstarts are looking to win it for only the second time.
If the hype and mystery of Madrid must be believed, then there is no need for the game. Just give them the trophy in Spain.
But it would be a big mistake to dismiss Dortmund so easily after surprising many to reach the final 11 years after losing to Madrid.
Madrid, who clinched their 33rd league title this season, have reached the 70th European showpiece with an unbeaten record in the competition.
Dortmund are also in fine form and second only to Madrid in the competition this season with only one defeat in their last 11 European matches.
So, this will be quite an intriguing clash in London – the same venue Dortmund lost the 2013 final to rivals Bayern Munich.
Although Real Madrid have been seen as the hotter of the two sides and the team who could possibly win the title but the two previous Europa competitions final won by Atalanta of Italy and Olympiacos of Greece where they defeated Bayer Leverkusen and Florentina respectively have given some pundits a headache and pushed them to give Dortmund a surprising victory against the favourite tonight at Wembley.