On The Ball: Don't bet against Real upsetting the odds again

In Paris, Liverpool and Real Madrid will become the first Champions League final pairing on three occasions, while Carlo Ancelotti will become the first manager to face the same opposition three times in the competition's showpiece. In short, plenty of history will be played out.

It was Ancelotti, who knows Merseyside well, having managed Everton from 2019 until last year, whose AC Milan team were on the wrong end of Liverpool's miracle of Istanbul in 2005, though he gained revenge in Athens two years later.