Champions League review: Karius howlers and Bale brilliance win it for Madrid

Real Madrid won an unprecedented third successive Champions Club title beating Liverpool 3-1 thanks to two terrible mistakes by Lorius Karius and a moment of brilliance from Gareth Bale.

Zinedine Zidane joined Bob Paisley and Carlo Ancelotti as the only manager to win three Champions League/European Cups, and nobody noticed such was the magnificence of extraordinariness that greeted Liverpool and Real Madrid at both ends of the spectrum last night.

Google ‘Champions League Final’ and one name emerges above all others.

Loris Karius.