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The last time both teams scored in a champions league final was 2018 when Real Madrid defeated Liverpool 3-1 to complete a champions league three-peat. In 2019, Liverpool would get back to the champions league final and this time they won by shutting out Tottenham 2-0 to start the drought. In 2020, Bayern Munich won 1-0 against PSG in late August. Then in 2021, Kai Havertz scored the only goal of the game for Chelsea to win the battle of Premier League teams against Man City. Then in 2022, Real Madrid defeats Liverpool once again but this time they shut them out 1-0. In 2023, Man City completed the treble by beating Inter Milan 1-0 with the help of Lukaku, who blocked his teammates shot. In 2024, Real Madrid won their 5th champions league title in the last 9 years with two second half goals to win 2-0. And in 2025, PSG completely destroyed Inter Milan 5-0 in their first season without Mbappe. Today we will find out if this streak continues when PSG plays Arsenal.
May 8, 2019. Amsterdam. Tottenham trailed Ajax 3-0 on aggregate at halftime of the Champions League semifinal second leg. The home team with Matthijs de Ligt, Frenkie de Jong, Hakim Ziyech had been the story of the tournament up to that point, dispatching Real Madrid and Juventus en route to the semis. Spurs needed three goals in 45 minutes to advance. Lucas Moura the Brazilian forward who hadn't started a UCL knockout game ALL SEASON would score them all. Goal one: 55th minute, scrambled finish through traffic. Goal two: 59th, low driven shot. 2-2 on aggregate suddenly, but Ajax still going through on away goals. The clock kept running. 70 minutes. 80. 90. Stoppage time. Five minutes added. 95:30. Spurs worked a final ball into the box. Dele Alli flicked it on. Lucas Moura met it with his right foot and rolled it past André Onana into the bottom corner. Final whistle. Tottenham 3, Ajax 2. 3-3 on aggregate, advancing on away goals. Spurs were heading to their first-ever Champions League final against Liverpool, who had pulled off their own miracle 24 hours earlier. Two of the greatest comebacks in UCL history. Back-to-back nights. The greatest semifinal week the tournament has ever known. Shoutout to @bleachcreetch for the inspo!
At 17, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia thought he had his big break in Germany. Bayern saw him, had the chance to sign him after his trial, but eventually passed. Then life took him somewhere completely different and he started playing in Russia. Then Russia invaded Ukraine, FIFA allowed foreign players to walk away from their contracts, and Kvara left behind the money & security of his club to go back home to Georgia and play for Dinamo Batumi. That move changed everything. After an incredible first season, Napoli grabbed him for just 13 million euros and he helped bring them their first Scudetto since the glory days of Maradona. Later he made the move to PSG, and now the full circle moment is complete. The same club that passed on him at the age of 17 just watched him put in a man of the match performance to help knock them out of the Champions League. Bayern let the Kvara slip away, but now they’re reportedly trying hard not to make the same mistake with his little brother as they flew him in just last week for a trial. Sometimes football really does write itself
May 7, 2019. Anfield. Liverpool walked into the second leg of the Champions League semifinal down 3-0 on aggregate to a Barcelona side led by Lionel Messi, fresh off a comprehensive home win one week earlier. They didn't have Mohamed Salah. They didn't have Roberto Firmino. They had a stadium that refused to give up. Divock Origi opened the scoring in the 7th. Half time substitute Georginio Wijnaldum scored twice in two minutes after the restart. Tied on aggregate. 56th minute. Anfield in delirium. Then, in the 79th, came one of the most audacious moments in football history. Trent Alexander-Arnold walked away from a corner kick at Liverpool's right corner flag. Then he turned, sprinted back, and quickly took the corner before Barcelona's defense had reset. Origi was unmarked at the near post. He turned it in. Liverpool 4, Barcelona 0. 4-3 on aggregate. The greatest comeback in Champions League knockout history. Three weeks later, Liverpool won the Champions League final, their sixth European Cup. Barcelona, ahead 3-0 from the first leg with the best player on Earth in their squad, never recovered. The Anfield Kop sang "Make Us Dream" all night. The Reds had and then some.
Thank you Jack Sauer for inspiring this post. For the uninitiated, the Champions League knockout games are played across 2 legs (games) so both teams get the chance to play in front of their fans. The winner of the round will move on to the next round. So if a team wins the first leg 2-0, but loses 1-0 in leg 2, they will move on to the next round. Naturally, this set up opens the door for crazy comebacks between legs. This season we saw one when Norwegian club Bodø/Glimt won the first leg 3-0 against Sporting CP, only for Sporting to win the 2nd leg 5-0 and move on to the Quarters. There have been multiple 3-goal comebacks. There has only ever been 1 4-goal comeback. In 2017, Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) entered their stadium for the first leg of their quarter final matchup with Barcelona. PSG clobbered their Catalan opponents. They won 4-0 and looked poised to head to their first ever Champions League semi final. Leg 2 would be at the Camp Nou, Barcelona’s stadium and it immediately fell apart for PSG. Luis Suarez scored for Barca just 3 minutes in and PSG scored an own goal in the 40th minute, making it 2-0 at halftime. Neymar drew a penalty just 5 minutes into the 2nd half and Messi scored to make it 3-0 (4-3 on aggregate). However, right when it looked dire, PSG actually found a goal to make it 3-1 (5-3 on aggregate). This was more important than you may realize. At the time, the Away Goal rule was in effect. In short, if the score was tied through 2 legs, then the tie would go to the team who scored the most away goals. Since PSG had the only away goal, they now held that tiebreaker. This meant Barcelona could’ve won by 4 and it wouldn’t matter. They needed 3 goals in 30 minutes to move on. Surely that wouldn’t happen… right? In the 88th minute, Neymar scored a free kick from outside the box. In the 91st minute, Neymar scored a penalty to make it 5-1 and 4 minutes later, in the final minute, Neymar lobbed a ball into the box for Sergi Roberto who scored and gave Barcelona the lead on aggregate. PSG never got another chance and Barcelona completed the greatest comeback in UCL history. Beyond just being a soul crushing loss, this game had a massive impact on the football world. After the season ended, PSG did the unthinkable and triggered Neymar’s release clause. A release clause is a sum of money written into the contract that, if offered to the club, allows the paying club to jump straight into contract negotiations with the player rather than having to negotiate with the club that owns the player. In Spain, every player is required to have a release clause. With superstars like Neymar, that release clause is often made something ridiculous no club would ever pay. Neymar’s was €222M ($261M USD at the time, $348M USD today) and PSG paid Barca the money. They negotiated a contract with Neymar and the Brazilian winger joined PSG. To this day, it is the most expensive transfer in football history. No other player has cost a team €200M. La Remontada and the following events are some of the most insane moments in sports history.
