Embrace
Jose Mourinho marches onto the pitch to console Borussia Dortmund boss Edin Terzic. Pipped to the Bundesliga title on the final day of the season last year, and a Champions League final defeat this year. A bit cruel for the 41-year-old.
Jose Mourinho marches onto the pitch to console Borussia Dortmund boss Edin Terzic. Pipped to the Bundesliga title on the final day of the season last year, and a Champions League final defeat this year. A bit cruel for the 41-year-old.
Tell you what, it's pretty scary to think that Real Madrid will have Kylian Mbappe and new Brazilian talent Endrick playing for them next season. A decade of dominance might just await the Spanish heavyweights.
What a ride.
Time for the medals to be dished out and the trophy to be lifted. Zinedine Zidane sticks the trophy on the plinth as the glum Borussia Dortmund players receive their runners-up medals.
Such a sickener for them, but it's not the first and certainly won't be the last time Real Madrid have been outplayed for large portions of the game and still won.
The German side were excellent but just lacked that killer instinct.
Maybe it’s the sheer weight of history, maybe it’s supreme self-confidence, maybe it’s black magic from the men in white.
But when Old Big Ears is in the building, Real Madrid always find a way.
No wonder Jude Bellingham was so desperate to get to the Bernabeu.
The Englishman laid on Real’s second goal for Vinicius Junior after Dani Carvajal’s late headed opener.
The Birmingham boy is a European champion at club level at the age of 20. Now how about international level too?
Bellingham sunk to his knees when Vinicius netted, then he was substituted by Carlo Ancelotti and blew kisses to the adoring Madristas who serenaded him’.
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A tearful Jude Bellingham speaking to TNT Sports: "I've always dreamed of playing in these games. You go through life, and there's so many people that say you can't do things. You wonder if it's worth it and those kinds of things… but nights like tonight make your realise.
"I was alright until I saw my mum and dad's face. The amount of nights where they could be at home at 7pm and they are doing trips at 11 and 12 o'clock at night to take me to football…
"The best night of my life."
Jude Bellingham is down on his knees. He looks emotional. No wonder, he's just won the La Liga title and Champions League before the age of 21!
We adding a Euros to that this summer, Jude?
FT: REAL MADRID HAVE WON THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE!
Carlo Ancelotti's side clinch their 15th European title and sixth in 11 years, which is more than double the number of any other club in history. They weren't at their best - but that trophy always manages to find its way back to the Bernabeu.
92: No last-gasp goals appear to be coming, folks. Real Madrid have made another change with Vinicius Jr is replaced by Vazquez.
These Borussia Dortmund players look shell-shocked really. To have dominated most of the match and created several good changes, only to have it taken away from them in the space of 11 minutes.
90: Just seen a pretty accurate Tweet. "Real Madrid - useless for 75 minutes and boom boom, game over!"
Thanks for that. Five minutes of additional time.
87: Disallowed goal! Malen beats his man and finds Fullkrug, who plants it beyond Courtois but the offside flag was up early. Correctly.
Jamie Bynoe-Gittens replaces Jadon Sancho, Militao is on for Rodrygo.
85: Jude Bellingham exits with an assist under his belt. Not his most influential display, but I doubt he'll care as he collects his winners medal. Semi-final hero Joselu replaces him.
There's also an emotional departure for Toni Kroos, who's played his last game of club football. He salutes the crowd, who give him a huge send-off. Modric is on for his midfield partner.
83: Real Madrid are winners of the 2024 Champions League! It's going to be their 15th title with Vinicius Jr doubling their advantage.
Borussia Dortmund are all over the place. Maatsen passes the ball across his backline only for it to fall to the feet of Jude Bellingham, who knocks it wide for the Brazilian Vinicius Jr to fire across Kobel and into the net.
82: Real Madrid are really ticking now. Camavinga, who's never scored in the Champions League, unleashes a phenomenal effort from distance and there's Kobel with a great save at full stretch.
We've not seen anything from Dortmund since Carvajal's opener.
80: Referee Slavko Vincic books Mats Hummels and the Spanish outfit have themselves a free-kick in a central position about 20 yards out.
Toni Kross is standing over it… parried wide by goalkeeper Kobel. Probably one for the cameras that.
Malen and Haller are on. Can and Brandt head off. Attacking changes, obviously.
78: That should have been game, set and match with Jude Bellingham on the scoresheet. Camavinga's cross falls to the feet of the young England star, who directs it wide via an incredible Schlotterbeck deflection.
76: The team that scores first has won the last seven Champions League finals, and the last four of them have been won with a 1-0 scoreline.
They've also not lost a European Cup final since 1981. So, I'm not surprised to see the Real Madrid end absolutely bouncing - the party has started as far as they are concerned.
74: Oh it's there! The deadlock has been broken by five-time winner of the competition Dani Carvajal.
Toni Kroos swings an excellent corner into the box and there's the diminutive full-back to get in front of his marker to glance a header beyond Kobel.
Typical Madrid. Vintage Madrid I guess you would say.
73: The first change of the night as hometown boy Marco Reus, 35, comes on to make his final appearance for the club. He replaces Adeyemi, who's been fantastic tonight.
Is it written in the stars?
69: At what point does Carlo Ancelotti release The Joselu? As Ally McCoist has been repeatedly saying, there's simply no focal point for the Spanish side.
Saying that, I would suggest that there's been a slight improvement from Real Madrid while the German side are slowing down just a fraction.
66: Forgot Rodrygo was playing. He's made his first contribution with a nice run down the right before cutting inside and winning a corner. Kross delivers but Hummels rises highest to clear and Vinicius Jr heads the rebound wide.