Real Madrid vs Liverpool, Live Score and Commentary, UEFA Champions League Final Live 2017-18

PEEP! PEEP! PEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!

REAL MADRID 3 - 1 LIVERPOOL!

REAL MADRID HAVE WON THEIR THIRD CONSECUTIVE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE CROWN UNDER ZINEDINE ZIDANE.

Just read that, contemplate it, read it again. Immense.

Liverpool did ever so well to get here, well deserved finalists, but some tragicomic keeping has ensured that's where the fairytale ends.

Real Madrid, meanwhile, are cavorting around with smiles plastered onto their faces. Absolute scenes.

That's all from me, Anirudh Menon. Thank you for the company!

Toodle-ooo!

93' Ronaldo screams forward on a counter... with him squaring up Van Dijk some utter muppet runs onto the field...

92' Real Madrid are winning this comfortably - but when Asensio swings it in and van Dijk clears it ahead of him, Ronaldo lets out a scream of frustration, The man wants a goal. Hahaha.

91' Alexander-Arnold swings it in, the ball creates a measure of panic but the majestic Varane heads it out... Modric then sends the Scouse youngster to fetch him a cup of tea as he turns away from pressure and into space. Immense.

90' Ramos outpaces Mane to a long ball. He's been immense today. Just as I finish typing that out, he concedes a freekick in a dangerous area.

89' Zinedine Zidane is going to win his THIRD CONSECUTIVE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE. Call him lucky, I double dare ya.

88' Firmino and Nacho have a clash of heads in the box. Nacho's down and Zidane takes the break to throw on young Marco Asensio for a beaming Karim Benzema.

87' Modric looks to release Ronaldo on the left, but Alexander-Arnold is back covering and does well to win the ball back

Absolutely

What a game @GarethBale11 is having.. What a substitution.. #geniuszizou @animenon89
— anwesh (@anwesh172) May 26, 2018

86; Madrid are keeping the ball at the corner.

85' This could get so ugly... Bale is sent screaming forward and he easily outpaces van Dijk before slowing down to get his shot away - that's all the time Lovren needs as he slides in with a perfect slide tackle.

Gareth Bale absolutely larrumps it at goal - the ball swerves hither, swerves thither - and Karius helps it into the net. IT WENT STRAIGHT THROUGH HIM!

83' GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL! BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALE!

83' Klopp makes his change as Emre Can comes on for James Milner. It doesn't really matter, though...

82' Mane gets a yellow for a frustrated foul on Ramos.

81' This is video game football now. Gareth Bale puts in a simply sublime ball into the box with the outside of his left boot... curling it into Benzema's path, who volleys it first time - straight at Karius.

80' Madrid are just playing keepball now. It's painful to watch if you are a Liverpool fan. Awe-inspiring if you are a neutral. Do you think there's been a better big-game team in the history of the sport?

79' Bale's making some neat runs here, but his teammates aren't yet picking him out - they're all going for the safe sideways option

78' One for the collection, that. Kroos passes a straightforward ball straight out to an opposition player.

77' Liverpool are keeping up a steady stream of crosses into the Madrid box, but they are being seen off with relative ease. For now.

Not if he doesn't start these kind of games, Shankar

@animenon89 Should Bale stay at Madrid simply for that goal?
— Shankar (@shanky11173) May 26, 2018

76' Lallana looks to have won the ball off Casemiro, but the ref spots the Englishman using his hand to win possession of the ball and Madrid heave a sigh of relief

74' WOW! WHAT A TACKLE FROM ROBERTSON! Another Modric pass allows Bale to motor into space. He plays a lovely ball into Ronaldo - who burns past van Dijk and looks set to smash it past Karius; but Robertson came sliding in from nowhere and took the ball off his feet. Lovely.

73' OH! CONTROVERSY! Or not. Firmino was appealing manically for a hand-ball off Casemiro, but that came off his elbow... but it was tucked into his chest!

72' Kroos is surrounded by five red shirts, so he slows time down and coolly passes it out to Modric. The Croat looks up and immediately plays in Ronaldo... the Portuguese squares up Van Dijk but just as he looks like he's got the beating of the Dutchman, he runs out of field.

71' The ball's cleared for a corner, which is wasted by Milner as he crosses it into Navas' arms.

70' The corner is authoritatively punched away by Navas... Liverpool work it back around the Madrid left... OH MY LORD! Sadio Mane unleashes a low screamer that clangs off Navas' far post! THAT WAS SO CLOSE!

69' OHOHOHOH! SERGIO RAMOS! Robertson sends a lovely ball into the box where Ramos has to be at his very best to make sure he toes it away ahead of a surging Sadio Mane

67' Modric is strutting around like he owns the place. He does, if you had any doubts.

65' Aiy! With Liverpool committing personnel forward, Real Madrid have spaces to exploit - a loose Nacho pass kills off this particular counter, though.

THAT IS SIMPLY UNBELIEVABLE! ZINEDINE ZIDANE IS GOING *WOOOOOOOOF* Marcelo swung it in with his right foot, no seriously, and Bale leaped back and absolutely leathered a bicycle kick into the far corner. THAT IS JUST LUDICROUS. AND HE WAS ON THE BENCH. WHAT IS THIS REAL MADRID TEAM

64' GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL! BAAAAAAAAAAALLLEEEEEEEEEEE!

63' Madrid are still passing it lazily around - making Liverpool do all the hard running... but the Reds seem to be tiring. Ronaldo looks to shoot, and runs and runs and runs...

62' Bale on, Isco off as Zinedine Zidane moves in for the kill

61' Modric teases the entire Liverpool defense before laying it off to Nacho... the fullback swings it in, Isco kills it dead and shoots near post, but Karius turns it around for a corner. Kroos takes, van Dijk thumps clear.

60' Bodies are flying everywhere - Ramos into Mane, van Dijk into Ronaldo, Robertson into Modric... the ref adjudges them all to be fair. He's had a superb game. I must say

59' Nacho keeps his head as Milner and Firmino chase him, and Madrid calmly play out of the back...

58' Madrid are exerting more pressure now... Ramos and Varane guiding them forward, holding a high, high line just inside Liverpool's own half

57' Modric just stopped a belted crossfield dead with a touch of his leg, some four feet off the ground. Ludicrous, that man is

The corner is superbly put in, Lovren dominates Ramos in the air to win the header - and Mane is the first to react as he leaps to poke it into the empty net. GAME VERY MUCH ON!

55' GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOALLLL! MAAAAAAAAAAAANNEEEEEEEEEEEEE

54' Liverpool are fired up now, and are bombing forward looking for an immediate response.... Milner curls in an absolute peach of a cross onto the far post; it takes a superb Varane header to take it inches off it's intended trajectory onto Firmino's forehead. Doesn't matter, though...

53' Mane tries to physically overpower Sergio Ramos down the Liverpool right. Ramos' laughs and easily sees him off till Marcelo comes in takes the ball back.

52' Ramos slips, Mane is around him... so goes to ground holding his face in agony. Of course, he does.

What is this utter farce! WHAT! Loris Karius collects a hopeless punt easily and then throws it onto Benzema's boot. He just threw it. Superb poaching from the Frenchman, ludicrous goalkeeping from the German

50' GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL! BENZEMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

49' Robertson tries to cut in and move forward but is stopped instantly by a brilliant Modric tackle. Woof, has the Croat been on his A game or what.

Real Madrid vs Liverpool, Live Score and Commentary, UEFA Champions League Final Live 2017-18

Real Madrid 3 - 1 Liverpool (Benzema 50', Bale 64', 83'; Mane 55')