The football world will be on a date tonight, with the upcoming match in the first leg of the final eighth round of the European Champions League competition, which brings together Liverpool, England, and its Spanish guest, Real Madrid, at Anfield Road, in Liverpool.
The two ancient teams have met 9 times in the same competition so far, so Liverpool won three times, Real Madrid five times and tied once, and the first meeting was in the Parc des Princes in Paris in the 1981 final, when Liverpool won with a goal by Anne Kennedy.
Liverpool succeeded in eliminating Real Madrid from the final eight of the 2008-2009 season, by defeating it first-leg (1-0) in Madrid, and back (4-0) at Anfield Road.
After that, Real Madrid had the upper hand, who beat Liverpool in the group stage for the 2014-2015 season, back in Liverpool (3-0) and back in Madrid (1-0).
The two teams met in the final of the 2017-2018 season, and Real Madrid won (3-1) in the match that took place at the Olympsky Stadium in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev.
And in the 2020-2021 season, Real Madrid won (3-1) in Madrid in the first leg of the quarter-finals, and the two teams tied negatively in the second leg, so that the Royals qualified for the semi-finals.
Finally, the two teams met on May 28, 2022, at the Stade de France International in Paris in the final match, and on that day Real Madrid won once more (1-0) and won the title.