SAT JUNE 01 2024-theGBJournal| A sublime header in the 74th minute by Dani Carvajal and a dreadful error by Borussia Dortmund’s Ian Maatsen in the 83 minute into the game earned Real Madrid the European Champions League trophy on Saturday at Wembley Stadium, London.
Real Madrid’s, the perennial winners, second goal scored by Vinicius Jr earned the Madrid giants their 15th success in the most prestigious club competition in the world.
A team known for dominating Champions league played a team who weren’t fancied from the start to reach the finals.
Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid have squared up against each other on 14 occasions. Los Blancos have the upper hand, having won six of those outings with Dortmund winning only thrice.
In the 14 matches between the two, Real Madrid have scored 24 goals, while Borussia Dortmund only have 19 to their name.
Real Madrid have only trailed for 7.5% of their total game time in the UEFA Champions League this season (90 minutes out of 1,200), the lowest percentage of any side.
They have come back to win four matches in which they have been behind in the competition this term, with only Barcelona in 1999/2000 and Real Madrid themselves in 2016/17 (five each) having more comebacks wins in a single campaign in the competition.
Across the last three UEFA Champions League campaigns (since 2021/22), Vinicius Junior has been directly involved in more goals than any other player (31 – 16 goals, 15 assists).
17 of those have come in the knockout stages (eight goals, nine assists), which is also the most of any player in this period.
Jude Bellingham has created more chances under pressure (19) than any other midfielder in the UEFA Champions League, with four of those resulting in an assist for a Real Madrid teammate.
The only player to provide more assists while under pressure from at least one opposition player in the current tournament is Borussia Dortmund’s Marcel Sabitzer (5).
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