For the first time in 6 years .. Champions League final without Messi and Ronaldo

World football

MADRID [Reuters] – The Spanish capital Madrid will host the final of the Champions League on Saturday, which will bring together Liverpool's Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur.

The world's best pair, Barcelona's Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, will miss the Champions League final for the first time since 2013.

Cristiano Ronaldo crowned the Champions League 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018 with Real Madrid, while Lionel Messi won the continental title with Barcelona in 2015.

The final of the 2013 edition of the Champions League between German giants Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, which saw the crown of the Bavarian giants, was the last to miss Messi and Ronaldo.

Liverpool managed to secure their place in the final of the Champions League for the second time in a row, after winning a historic win over Barcelona in a clean fourth in the game they collected at Anfield, in the semi-final "Champions" of the Champions League, and achieved Liverpool "Rimontada" after the defeat in Go on a three-point clean at Camp Nou, to qualify the Egyptian star Mohammed Salah to the final of the Champions League.

While Cristiano Ronaldo has left the current version of the Champions League quarter-final with Juventus.

This is the second time in history that an English club has met in the final of the Champions League after Manchester United beat Chelsea in the 2008 final.