Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid are playing the Champions League final on Saturday and the match comes live streaming from FOX on the FOX Soccer 2Go Website from Lisbon in Portugal as Cristiano Ronaldo tries to get his team the title and this matchup of two La Liga teams begins at 2:45 pm ET and gives Carlo Ancelotti the chance to get title number 10 for the club.
Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema are the leading goal scorers for the team ahead of Gareth Bale and Bale is second on the team in assists and he has played well in his first season in Madrid. Ronaldo has tons of pressure on him to deliver against the Madrid rivals and he also has the World Cup to prepare for and his Portugal team is in the group of death with the United States, Ghana and Germany. The club finished third in the Spanish Primera Division standings behind Atletico and Barcelona and now they will get the chance to complete their run in the UCL this year.
Real has played against Bayern, Borussia Dortmund and Schalke on their path to the Champions League final and now after having an all-German finals last year, this time around its two Spanish teams. The two rivals will play in Lisbon and now they get the chance to face off here and it comes for the first time since Real came to the final back in 2002 and that saw the team win over Bayer Leverkusen to get the championship. Ronaldo has scored 16 goals in the tournament this year and that is a record and he is looking to finish things off at home in Portugal and that would be a nice send off before the World Cup.
Atletico has had their best season ever and after taking the La Liga title they have the chance to win the Champions League for the first time in many years and they would be able to have the Champs League Cup and the La Liga title in the same year and winning that was their first time since 1996. This matchup also has two teams into the finals from the same city for the first time ever. Real Madrid comes in looking to win the title for the first time in a decade and now the manager will try to do that after names like Jose Mourinho, Fabio Capello and Manuel Pellegrini were unable to deliver it.
It would be fitting for Real to win, as they took down the champions in Bayern Munich in the semifinals and Atletico defeated Chelsea to advance. Madrid comes into the game after winning against Espanyol in their last match in La Liga and before that they played a couple draws and also had another win, but they couldn't catch up to Barca, who lost to Atletico for the title. The team dominated Bayern in the last round, winning 5-0 on aggregate and that was a big blow to the team that won last year and the team that had won their own home league weeks before in Bundesliga by a ton of points.