“We don’ t think that favorites exist, that is something for the media”.
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Real Madrid also wrapped up its Spanish Primera Division schedule with 12 straight wins, overcoming a slow start but failing to end their four-year La Liga championship drought. “But not just because I want Madrid to lose”, Alves said.
“The most important thing for the fans is to beat Real Madrid because we are city rivals”. Their crosstown rivals were nearly on par with Barcelona and Real Madrid this season as they finished third, just 2 points behind their much wealthier rivals.
Los Blancos face Atletico Madrid Saturday in the Champions League Final.
Saturday cannot come soon enough for Zidane, who could become the seventh man to win the European Cup as a player and a coach.
The San Siro will play host to Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid on Saturday as Spain’s capital rivals battle it out for European football’s biggest prize.
For a boyhood Atletico fan like Torres, the prize of the club finally winning the Champions League and leaving Real in Atletico’s shadow for once is doubly rewarding.
“It is clear I want to stay here, I want to continue here”, he told Spanish television station La Sexta on Wednesday.
“I prefer to play in space”, he said.
Manchester United had an embarrassing campaign in the Champions League, not finishing in either first place or second place to qualify for the knockouts. We’re preparing with joy and enthusiasm and a desire to win.
Earlier this year, Ronaldo also hinted that he could be open to a switch to Major League Soccer but the Portugal worldwide is now ready to see out his career in the Spanish capital.
Antoine Griezmann is Atletico’s top goalscorer in both the league and the Champions League, and he remains a tidy 9/2 (5.5) to be the first name on the scoresheet in the match.
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But he was among the scorers the last time Real Madrid made the final of the competition, and has claimed the quality throughout the squad can help them see off neighbours Atletico for the second time in three years.
