UEFA Champions League. Real Madrid will face the English of Liverpool in a final of the Champions League which promises to be spectacular from the Stade de France.
Crazy, totally crazy! Once again, the real Madrid turned the tide in the final minutes of regulation time and added time to snatch an unexpected extension against Manchester City before making the difference with the inevitable Karim Benzema from the penalty spot. An intense joy expressed by Carlo Ancelotti after the meeting. “We finished stronger to win this match. We have an extraordinary public and that pushes the players. They are empowered and know the history of this shirt very well, which is very important. It is the biggest club in the world and I’m very happy to be the coach. We deserved to go to Paris to play in this final and we’ll see what happens…”
For his part Pep Guardiola admitted to having taken a big slap this Wednesday, May 4 after Real’s “climb” in the semi-finals of the Champions League. “We were better, we qualified, we had the game under control. They started to play high and they managed to score. I didn’t think I was in the final, we were close to it. But they know how to write history, “We have to congratulate them. We struggled to get into the game, it’s a hard blow. We missed a little thing in the first half. We were better then and we managed to score. Then there was had those two minutes…”
Now it’s time for the final, at the Stade de France on Saturday May 28 at 9 p.m.! For this meeting, the people of Madrid will face the Reds of Liverpool and Mohamed Salah, striker of Liverpool, has already launched hostilities after the meeting by tweeting unequivocally for the Merengues: “We have a score to settle”.
Ticket sales for the 2022 UEFA Champions League Final have not been available since April 28 at 2 p.m. A total of 52,000 tickets out of 75,000 (the stadium’s capacity for the final) were available for purchase for fans and the general public. The two teams that reach the final will receive 20,000 tickets each, while 12,000 tickets have been put on sale for fans around the world via UEFA.com.
The group stage of the Football Champions League is played from Tuesday September 14, 2021 to Wednesday December 8, 2021 while the knockout stage will be played from Tuesday February 15, 2022 to Wednesday May 4, 2022. As for the final, it is scheduled for Saturday, May 28, 2021 at Saint Petersburg Stadium, Russia. The calendar was then drawn up as follows by UEFA:
- Group stage
- September 14 and 15
- September 28 and 29
- October 19 and 20
- November 2 and 3
- November 23 and 24
- December 7 and 8
- Knockout stage
- Round of 16
- February 15 and 16 (one way)
- February 22 and 23 (return)
- Quarter-finals
- April 5 and 6 (one way)
- April 12 and 13 (return)
- Semi-finals
- April 26 and 27 (one way)
- May 3 and 4 (return)
- Final
- Saturday May 28, 2022
The TV rights battle continued to rage for this new 2021/2022 season. UEFA has awarded the French TV rights for the “Big Ears Cup” to beIN Sports and Canal+, which thus ensure the broadcasting of the 2021-2022 Champions League. RMC Sport will co-broadcast with Canal the two best Champions League posters until 2024 and beIN SPORTS will offer all the remaining matches. TF1 will broadcast the final scheduled for May 28, 2022.
As the knockout stages of the Champions League begin on Tuesday March 8 and end on March 16, Robert Lewandowski, Bayern’s Polish striker, is currently the competition’s top scorer ahead of Ivorian Sébastien Haller and Egyptian Mohamed Salah. Classification :
- Robert Lewandowski, Bayern Munich12 goals
- Karim Benzema, Real Madrid, 11 goals
- Sebastien Haller, Ajax Amsterdam, 11 goals
- Mohamed Salah, Liverpool, 8 goals
- Christopher Nkunku, Leipzig, 7 goals
- Cristiano Ronaldo, Manchester United, 6 goals
- Riyad Mahrez, Manchester City, 6 goals
- Leroy Sané, Bayern Munich, 6 goals
- Kylian Mbappé, PSG, 6 goals
- Lionel Messi, PSG, 5 goals