Real Madrid breezed past Borussia Dortmund in the title clash to win their record-extending UEFA Champions League trophy at the Wembley Stadium in London. Dani Carvajal and Vinicius Junior were the two goal-scorers for Real Madrid as Toni Kroos bowed out of club football with a title win.
The 14-time winners Real Madrid will take on German giants Borussia Dortmund in the final of the UEFA Champions League 2023-24 at London's Wembley Stadium on Saturday evening. German icons Toni Kroos and Marco Reus will be playing their last games for their respective games.
Champions League: Manchester City continued their winning run in the Champions League while there were wins for PSG, Real Madrid and Napoli, while Chelsea and Juventus remain winless
Haaland hasn't played since Sept. 19 with a unspecified muscle problem and will sit out Norway's upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Turkey and Montenegro.
Dortmund has already conceded 11 goals in five Bundesliga games the fifth-worst record in the league.
German football clubs resisted last-minute splurges on players with Leipzig’s signing of Ilaix Moriba from Barcelona the most eye-catching move on the last day of the summer transfer window.
Lewandowski opened the scoring in the 41st minute and got the decisive third goal in the 74th after Marco Reus had pulled one back for Dortmund.
Bayern begins its bid for a record-extending 10th consecutive German championship at Borussia Mönchengladbach on Friday.
The Manchester club has agreed to a deal in principle to sign the English winger for 85 million euros ($100 million) from Dortmund.
Captain Marco Reus was involved in all four goals as Dortmund won the cup for the fifth time and denied bitter rival Leipzig a first title.
Dortmund profited from fourth-place Eintracht Frankfurt’s defeat to Borussia Mönchengladbach the day before to move four points behind Frankfurt with five games of the season remaining.
Jude Bellingham scored to put Dortmund on course for an upset win before City hit back through a penalty by Riyad Mahrez and Foden's goal.
The 20-year-old Norwegian has scored 33 goals in 34 games across all competitions this season. Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola praised Haaland as “a fantastic striker” on Monday
He is also the youngest player to reach 20 goals in the Champions League — at 20 years, 231 days — and he got to that milestone in just 14 games, also a record.
It has become a regular occurrence at the club in recent seasons, and usually strikes when everything appears to be going well.
Haaland took his season tally to 10 goals for Dortmund to advance with a 5-4 win on aggregate.
Lewandowski completed his hat trick in the last minute, just after Leon Goretzka put Bayern ahead for the first time. Erling Haaland had fired the visitors into an early two-goal lead.
Leipzig increased the pressure on Bayern Munich ahead of its clash with Borussia Dortmund by moving top of the Bundesliga with a 3-0 win at Freiburg on Saturday.
Marvin Friedrich scored the winner with a header to a corner in the 78th minute for the home side to move just a point behind Dortmund after 13 games played.
Dortmund dropped to fifth in the league after the heavy loss and has won just one of its last five games in all competitions in a slump that coincides with an injury to star forward Erling Haaland.
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