Champions League final special: Alexander-Arnold vs Vinicius, records on the line, the view from Madrid and the latest from Paris
Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
Sky Sports
4 • 718 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Sky Sports digital football journalists Richard Morgan and Nick Wright talk us through where the game will be won and lost for Liverpool, whether their Premier League title battle will put them at a disadvantage and how Trent Alexander-Arnold and Vinicius Junior will be a key battle at the Stade de France.
Spanish football expert Ben Hayward also joins us to give us the mood from Madrid, where Carlo Ancelotti has been able to rest a number of his key players ahead of the final, and could make his own history if he becomes the first manager to lift the European Cup four times. Ben also explains why Real Madrid have become so synonymous with Champions League success – and what has driven their sensational never-say-die attitude this season.
Finally, Sky Sports features writer Adam Bate dials in from the French capital to update us on the latest on the atmosphere in Paris as well as explaining how the temperature could play its part, and give his prediction for Saturday’s spectacle.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Sky Sports Football Podcast brought to you by Bet365, where every nail-biting |
| 0:05.7 | nil-nil, every bizarre VAR, every foregone conclusion, bad pass, slam dunk, tap-in, full-start, |
| 0:13.3 | dead heat, and absolutely expected defeat is amazing. |
| 0:17.7 | From football to tennis and ice hockey to motorsport. Whatever the moment, |
| 0:22.3 | it's never ordinary at Bet365. Hello football fans. I'm Ron Walker and welcome to a special Champions League preview edition of the Essential Football podcast. Now, the quadruple may be off the card, but Liverpool can still win a treble of sorts |
| 0:56.5 | against an old enemy who've had more lives than a cat in this season's tournament. |
| 1:00.9 | It's European juggernaut real Madrid, who they will go face to face with in France on Saturday. |
| 1:08.0 | We're going to be talking all things Stad de France in today's show, and we've scoured |
| 1:12.5 | the length and breadth of the continent for the best analysis our budget can afford. So here's |
| 1:17.4 | Sky Sports Digital Football Journalist Richard Morgan, as well as football features writer Nick Wright, |
| 1:24.0 | who will be jetting or rather getting a train over to France on Friday. Nick, is this |
| 1:28.7 | your first visit to the home of French football? It's not my first visit, no, it's my first visit |
| 1:34.0 | in a while, though, and I am going, I am going via Leal this time, which is unusual, but probably |
| 1:40.2 | reflects the number of the number of Liverpool fans desperately trying to put transport to Paris by any means necessary. |
| 1:46.7 | So I'm having to take a slightly unusual route. |
| 1:49.2 | But yes, I'll be there tomorrow. |
| 1:50.4 | Very excited as well. |
| 1:51.9 | We've already got Adam Bate there, our colleague, obviously. |
| 1:54.7 | So, yeah, we'll be out there together. |
| 1:56.4 | So looking forward to it. |
| 1:57.5 | Yeah, let's hope it's a memorable and for all the right reasons. |
| 2:00.7 | And the game comes |
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