The strangest thing in Champions League history - Real Madrid met with two La Liga teams and three Bundesliga teams respectively to compete in the finals, but avoided the most important opponents of t

In the context of the Champions League, Real Madrid's advantages over all other giants are crushing. While Liverpool, Bayern, Barcelona and other teams were still competing for Milan to win the second place in the championship list, Real Madrid already had 15 championships in hand, smiling without saying a word - just grab it, the more fierce the snatch it, the further away it is from me. It can be said that just looking at Real Madrid's 18 Champions League finals accounted for most chapters of the total history of the Champions League. In other words, Real Madrid's final history is the condensed history of the Champions League. In the 18 finals, Real Madrid encountered opponents throughout the major European leagues. Needless to say, there are all five major leagues, and there are also Benfica in the Portuguese Super League and even Belgrade guerrillas in the Yugoslav League. Of course, the focus is on the five major leagues. Among them, Liverpool has played the most finals with Real Madrid. In the 1980s, Liverpool beat Real Madrid to win the championship. In recent years, the two teams have met twice in the finals, but Liverpool are both losers.

However, it is more regrettable that in the history of the Premier League (including the previous English League One), only Liverpool has met with Real Madrid to the Champions League final. The final showdown between Manchester United and Real Madrid that we are looking forward to has not been presented so far. Not to mention Manchester City, Chelsea, which lacks foundation. Manchester City has met Real Madrid frequently in recent years, but it is not the final.

In this regard, Serie A is the best, because the top three of Serie A have all played against Real Madrid in the Champions League finals. Among them, Real Madrid defeated AC Milan and Juventus in the final, and won twice. But I lost to Inter Milan and have not received any chance of revenge yet.

So, what about La Liga and Bundesliga?

After the reform of the Champions League, more than one team in the five major leagues can participate, so it is also possible to present a derby in the same league in the final. From the 1999 to 2000 season, Real Madrid met with Valencia in the final, 3:0 in one game, allowing Valencia to realize the gap between himself and the Champions League king. In 2014 and 2016, Real Madrid and its city rival Atletico Madrid met twice in the Champions League final, which is also an eternal regret for Atletico Madrid.

Bundesliga, as early as the 1960s, Frankfurt played the Champions League final with Real Madrid and created the largest score in the history of the Champions League final - 3:7. Then in 2002, Zidane's flying immortals presented the biggest gift to Real Madrid's 100th anniversary celebration - the Champions League champion. Leverkusen becomes the background board.

There is also last season, Real Madrid and Dortmund met in the final, and Real Madrid won the championship 2:0 without any danger.

Therefore, in the history of the Champions League final, Real Madrid has played against two La Liga teams and three Bundesliga teams. But, do you feel something is wrong? In the Champions League final, it is quite frequent to meet two or three teams in a certain league, but why did you avoid and miss the most important opponent in this league?

Real Madrid and La Liga teams meet in the Champions League final. Why can't the opponent be Barcelona?

Real Madrid and Bundesliga teams meet in the Champions League final. Why can't the opponent be Bayern?

These are the two strangest things in the 60-year history of the Champions League.

Look at Barcelona first. Only after the Champions League is reorganized and expanded, Real Madrid and Barcelona have the opportunity to meet in the Champions League. Therefore, the possibility of the Spanish national derby meeting in the Champions League final only exists in the past 20 or 30 years. But with the impressive results of Real Madrid and Barcelona in the Champions League over the years, the two teams should have played in the Champions League final.

In fact, the two teams have not played many times in the Champions League, but at most it is the semi-finals. There were a few times when the two teams reached the semi-finals together and were divided into different half-zones, but unfortunately, either side was not good at it or both sides were not good at it. Anyway, I never encountered the finals.

Look at Bayern again. If Real Madrid and Barcelona belong to La Liga and have only had the opportunity to meet in the finals in the past 20 or 30 years, then Real Madrid and Bayern can only say that there is not enough opportunity. There is a cold knowledge that in the history of the Champions League, the most frequent matchups are Real Madrid vs. Bayern. The two teams have played 28 times in the Champions League. But it is hard to imagine that 28 times, none of them were the finals.

The two teams have had a fight in the quarterfinals, quarterfinals, semi-finals, and early second-stage group stages. But the finals are missing. You should know that the match between Real Madrid and Bayern is called the European derby, but the game that best represents the peak European duel has never been presented in the final. This matter is unreasonable to think about it.

Of course, this is all temporary. As the Champions League pattern becomes more and more solid, I don’t believe that in the next few years, the Spanish national derby and the European derby will not move to the stage of the Champions League finals. By then, this will be a historic moment in the Champions League.