Zinedine Zidane’s Real Madrid a side certain of their own version of events | Barney Ronay


Zinedine Zidane’s team are a superpower built on big personalities, always certain of their own version of events

On a night of steadily deflating momentum, Jürgen Klopp’s marauding Liverpool did their best Jürgen Klopp’s marauding Liverpool impression. And for a while it was tempting to believe.

Anfield looked splendid under open blue cold skies, one of those nights when the wind comes scudding in off the sea and the place seems to boil and throb with, well, what exactly?

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