The 2023/24 UEFA Champions League final, featuring Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund, will be held at Wembley Stadium on Saturday, 1st June.
While Real Madrid, led by Carlo Ancelotti, enter as the favourites because of their unbeaten run in this season’s tournament and their pedigree as 14-time champions, Dortmund has defied expectations and reached their third final through surprising performances.
Football, however, is known for its unpredictability. Matches are not always determined by dominant performances, as seen in the 2012 Champions League final, where Bayern Munich outplayed Chelsea. The Bavarians had 23 goal attempts, while Chelsea had just six. Bayern scored what they thought was the winning goal in the 83rd minute, but Chelsea equalised two minutes to the end. Bayern had a penalty in extra time which former Chelsea forward Arjen Robben missed, and then lost in the penalty shoot-out.
