Real Madrid and Liverpool will meet in the Champions League final on Saturday, 4 years after they met them in the 2018 edition.
Several changes were made to the squad of both teams, who played in the Kyiv final in 2018, and Real Madrid won 3-1.
Liverpool He changed dramatically in his squad between the two matches, given the names of his stars in the Kyiv match and the squad expected to enter the Stade de France on Saturday.
The 4-3-3 plan applied by German coach Jurgen Klopp may not have changed, but the change in Liverpool comes in the basic elements.
Liverpool squad
The Reds squad in 2018 included German goalkeeper Loris Karius, the symbol of the loss in that match by receiving two goals from individual errors, one of which was a shot by Gareth Bale and the second when Karim Benzema cut the ball in front of him with a touch that turned it into the net.
In defense there are 4 players, 3 of them have not changed, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson are full-backs and Virgil van Dijk, while Dejan Lovren left the team in 2020 to Zenit St. Petersburg, Russia.
The middle trio consisted of Gigi Wijnaldum, who left the team, to join Paris Saint-Germain for free last year, and James Milner and Jordan Henderson.
In the attack, the trio of Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino are still present, with the Brazilian’s participation reduced in favor of the new deals Luis Diaz and Diogo Jota.
Looking at the changes in the squad, Brazilian goalkeeper Alison Becker will replace Karius and Ibrahima Konate will replace Lovren, and in the middle will be the duo Thiago Alcantara and Fabinho instead of Milner and Wijnaldum, while Diaz will enter instead of Firmino.
In total, the changes in Liverpool will include all lines, with a total of 5 players out of 11.
Real Madrid squad
On the other hand, the changes will be strongly present in the ranks of the team that has 13 titles, Real Madridbut more.
Real Madrid, under the leadership of French coach Zinedine Zidane, played the 2018 final in the same way, in goalkeeper Keylor Navas, the current Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper, in defense Raphael Varane of Manchester United and Sergio Ramos, Paris defense star, and full-backs Dani Carvajal and the current substitute Marcelo, who He will be on the bench by a large percentage in his last appearance.
In the middle the trio remains the same, Casemiro, Toni Kroos and Luka Modric have not changed.
But in the attack, Karim Benzema was present, with him was Cristiano Ronaldo, the current Manchester United scorer, and Isco, who was preparing to leave, like Marcelo.
And if there were 5 Liverpool players who changed from the squad that played in the Kyiv final, the changes amounted to 6 in Madrid, with a total of 11 players in Real Madrid.
Thibaut Courtois came on as a substitute for Navas, and in defense the trio of Ramos, Varane and Marcelo missed, to enter David Alaba, Ferland Mendy and Eder Miliato instead.
In the attack, Ronaldo left, and Isco returned to the shop, to be replaced by Vinicius Junior and Rodrygo.