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#UCL: Some Facts You Should Know. Feel Free To Add Yours. by iamsoja(m): 10:03am On Jun 06, 2015
• No side has successfully defended the UEFA Champions League trophy, with Milan (1989, 1990) being the last club to win consecutive European Cups. Milan (1994, 1995), Ajax (1995, 1996), Juventus (1996, 1997) and Manchester United (2008, 2009) have all returned to the final as holders only to lose.

• Just two teams have ever won the UEFA Champions League on home soil: Dortmund (1997, final in Munich) and Juventus (1996, final in Rome), while Manchester United lost the 2011 final in London and 12 months later Bayern were beaten in the showpiece in their own stadium, the Fußball Arena München.

Clarence Seedorf is the only player to have lifted the European Cup with three clubs (AFC Ajax 1995, Real Madrid 1998, Milan 2003, 2007). Liverpool's Bob Paisley (1977, 1978, 1981) is the only coach to win three times.
• No player has hit a hat-trick in a UEFA Champions League final. Daniele Massaro (Milan 1994), Karl-Heinz Riedle (Borussia Dortmund 1997), Hernán Crespo (Milan 2005), Filippo Inzaghi (Milan 2007) and Diego Milito (FC Internazionale Milano 2010) all struck twice. In European Cup terms, Ferenc Puskás scored four goals in Madrid's 7-3 defeat of Frankfurt in 1960, when Alfredo di Stéfano found the net three times; Puskás claimed another final hat-trick in 1962 with Pierino Prati (Milan 1969) the only other player to have managed a final treble.

• Just Raúl González (Madrid 2000 and 2002), Samuel Eto'o (Barcelona 2006 and 2009) and Lionel Messi (Barcelona 2009 and 2011) have scored in two UEFA Champions League finals – part of an exclusive club of 16 players to have netted in more than one European Cup showpiece. Di Stéfano and Puskás lead the list having each scored seven goals for Madrid.

• Paolo Maldini's goal 51 seconds into the 2005 showpiece is the fastest in a UEFA Champions League final.

• Jens Lehmann (2006) and Didier Drogba (2008) are the sole players to have been dismissed in a European Cup final.
• In the previous 21 UEFA Champions League finals, there have been 15 outright wins and six matches decided by shoot-outs. A total of 54 goals have been scored, with the most common result being 2-1, which has happened on five occasions; there have been four 1-1 draws, and three finals have finished 1-0.

• Fifteen European Cup finals have gone to extra time. The finals of 1958, 1968, 1970 and 1992 were decided in the additional period, while the 1974 showpiece between Bayern and Club Atlético de Madrid ended 1-1 after 120 minutes, with Bayern winning a replay. The other ten finals were settled by a penalty shoot-out after extra time: in 1984, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2008 and 2012 when Chelsea pipped Bayern 4-3 on spot kicks after a 1-1 draw.

• Milan's 4-0 win against FC Barcelona in the 1994 final remains the biggest winning margin and the Rossoneri were also involved in the highest scoring showpiece when they shared six goals with Liverpool in 2005 before penalties. In terms of the European Cup, Madrid's 7-3 thrashing of Eintracht Frankfurt in 1960 remains the most impressive scoreline while Bayern (1974 v Atlético) and Milan (1989 v FC Steaua Bucureşti) also recorded 4-0 successes.

http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/newsid=2102057.html

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Re: #UCL: Some Facts You Should Know. Feel Free To Add Yours. by Chestar5(f): 10:18am On Jun 06, 2015
Todays match ll ve no winnerlipsrsealed how i wish it were possible embarassed
Re: #UCL: Some Facts You Should Know. Feel Free To Add Yours. by Nobody: 10:20am On Jun 06, 2015
Omo! if juventus can win, i will run naked from the viewing center to my house.

i hate barca with passion, i just pray that messi should have gonnorreha or his gf shud bite off his dick during a Mouth Action

we have one less problem without messi

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Re: #UCL: Some Facts You Should Know. Feel Free To Add Yours. by iamsoja(m): 10:25am On Jun 06, 2015
Chestar5:
Todays match ll ve no winnerlipsrsealed how i wish it were possible embarassed
Lol...abi oooo
Re: #UCL: Some Facts You Should Know. Feel Free To Add Yours. by iamsoja(m): 10:26am On Jun 06, 2015
vickerz:
Omo! if juventus can win, i will run naked from the viewing center to my house.

i hate barca with passion, i just pray that messi should have gonnorreha or his gf shud bite off his dick during a Mouth Action

we have one less problem without messi

U must run naked if Juve wins o!

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