The 5 best UEFA Champions League finals

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Liverpool celebrate their 2018-19 UEFA Champions League title Real Madrid celebrate their La Decima in 2014
Liverpool celebrate their 2018-19 UEFA Champions League title Real Madrid celebrate their La Decima in 2014

# 3: 1994: AC Milan beat Barcelona 4-0

AC Milan celebrate their 1994 Champions League title
AC Milan celebrate their 1994 Champions League title

Having won their 4th Liga title on the trot, Barcelona were the favourites to lift their second Champions League in three years when they faced AC Milan in the 1994 final in Athens.

Milan hardly had the ideal build-up to the title match, with their star striker Marco Van Basten a long-term absentee due to injury, the world's then most-expensive footballer, midfielder Gianluigi Lentini was also out injured, and captain Franco Baresi and defender Alessandro Costacurta were both suspended for the final.

It was the unfancied Milan side which started strongly as the match got underway, as Daniele Massano opened the scoring and doubled the Italian team's lead on the cusp of halftime.

Two minutes into the second period, the excellent Dejan Savisevic produced a brilliant lob to beat the Barcelona keeper Andoni Zubizarreta. The match ceased to be a contest when Marcel Dessaily beat the off-side trap to score Milan's fourth of the night as the Rossoneri lifted their 5th European Cup / Champions League title in their 7th final.

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