BIG MATCH FACTS

■ This will be the ninth meeting between Liverpool and Real Madrid in the European Cup/Champions League – after winning the first three between 1981 and 2009, the Reds are winless in the last five (D1 L4).

■Liverpool and Real Madrid will meet for the third time in the final of the European Cup/Champions League, the most between two clubs. Liverpool won the first final in 1981 (1-0), before Real beat Jurgen Klopp’s side 3-1 in 2018.

■ Klopp has faced Real more times than any other opponent in the Champions League (9), winning just three of those matches (D2 L4).

■ Carlo Ancelotti is looking to win the CL for the fourth time; the most by any manager in the competition’s history (after 2002-03 and 2006-07 with AC Milan, and 2013-14 with current club Real Madrid).

■ Kop striker Mo Salah has scored 33 goals under Klopp in the CL; only three players have netted more in the competition playing under a single manager – Lionel Messi under Pep Guardiola (43), Ruud van Nistelrooy under Alex Ferguson (35) and Thierry Henry under Arsene Wenger (35).

■ Real Madrid have five players in their squad with 100+ CL matches (Karim Benzema, Toni Kroos, Luka Modric, Marcelo and David Alaba).

■ Jordan Henderson could make his 50th appearance in the Champions League for Liverpool – a milestone which would see him join club legends Jamie Carragher (80), Steven Gerrard (73) and Phil Neal (57) as the only English players to clock up 50 games for the Reds in the European Cup/ Champions League.

■ Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema, who will be 34 years and 160 days old on the day of the game, would be second-oldest player to score in a CL final, after Paolo Maldini for AC Milan in 2005 (36y 333d, also against Liverpool).

Trent Alexander-Arnold could make his third appearance in a Champions League final. Aged 23 years and 233 days on the day of this year’s final, he would be the second-youngest player in history to play in three finals, after Alessandro Del Piero in 1998 (23y 192d).