Gareth Bale’s two goals off the bench — one a wonder, the other a blunder — gave Real Madrid a 3-1 victory in the Champions League final on Saturday.

Everything else will fade. True, the second of its three goals will be talked about for some time, whenever an argument emerges about the best goal scored in the Champions League final. Gareth Bale’s gravity-defying overhead kick merits a place alongside the volley scored by his manager, Zinedine Zidane, in the 2002 final. It was a goal worthy of a place in history.

The victory was Madrid’s third in a row in the tournament, a feat unseen in the competition since Bayern Munich won three consecutive European Cups from 1974-76. It gave Madrid 13 titles over all, extending its Champions League record, and four in the past five years.

Liverpool, playing in the final for the first time since 2007, lost its star striker Mohamed Salah to a shoulder injury in the first half hour, and while it gave a game effort — tying the score at 1-1 early in the second half — Real Madrid’s relentlessness and unmatched depth simply wore them down.

Bale tries a what-the-heck attempt from about 35 yards on the right, and the knuckling ball slips right through the hands of Karius. No other way to say it: that’s an all-time howler, a blunder that may have cost Liverpool the Champions League title.

It’s 3-1 Madrid in the 82nd minute, but you just get the sense that was the dagger that delivered Madrid’s third straight title.


Salah’s departure immediately, fundamentally changed the dynamic of the game. Up to that point, Liverpool had been the more assertive team: not quite the more dangerous, and not as much of a threat as it has been at times this year, but perhaps more of a threat than Real Madrid had expected, or is accustomed to. Its midfield had forced a series of errors from Madrid’s; it had carved out a flurry of half-chances and glimpses of goal.


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