Real Madrid v Atlético Madrid: Champions League final – live! All the action from the final at the San Siro

Preamble So here we are then. For the second time in three seasons the Champions League final is an all-Madrid affair. Two years ago at the Estadio da Luz Atlético were seconds – seconds – from victory before Sergio Ramos’s headed an equaliser and Diego Simeone’s shattered side suffered something of an extra-time meltdown. Revenge is in the air in Milan tonight. Simeone says the scars of Lisbon have healed but he’s fooling nobody. Real are the narrow favourites and Atlético relish the role of underdogs but to paint them as plucky happy-go-lucky upstarts would be a mischaracterisation. This isn’t really the Evil Empire v the Ewoks. There’s plenty of enjoyment to be had in the win-at-all-costs-and-I-mean- ALL-costs mentality that Simeone has imbued in his side but it doesn’t necessarily make them universally likeable. Still, few outside the white half of the city would begrudge Atletico a redemptive victory at San Siro this evening. Road to the final For Real it has been plain sailing – a group-stage campaign featuring five wins, blemished only by a 0-0 draw in Paris against PSG and concluded with an 8-0 walloping of Malmo. Roma should’ve made Real pay for their sloppiness in the last 16 but were eventually swatted aside 4-0 on aggregate; Wolfsburg did make Real pay in their quarter-final first leg but their 2-0 lead was wiped out within 17 minutes at the Bernabeu and Cristiano Ronaldo finished the job (and his hat-trick) in the second half. Manchester City provided stubborn resistance in the semis but Fernando’s own goal was enough for a 1-0 Real win. Atletico’s road has been rather rockier. A home defeat against Benfica and a 0-0 draw in Astana left them sweating with two games to go in the group stage before two wins took them over the line with plenty to spare. In the last 16 there were 210 goal- less minutes against PSV before the two sides showed they could actually find the target in a thrilling penalty shootout, Atleti running out 8-7 winners. Barcelona awaited in the quarters and a couple of Antoine Griezmann suckerpunches in the second leg led to a 3-2 aggregate win. Bayern also suffered at the hands of the France forward, Griezmann’s goal at the Allianz Arena proving the difference as Atleti advanced on away goals. Previous meetings Recent history looks pretty good for Diego Simeone’s side. Atlético have lost only one of their last 10 Madrid derbies – the 1-0 defeat in the quarter-finals of this competition in April 2015. That game was the last of eight meetings between the sides last season, with Atletico going unbeaten in the other seven. Their two meetings in this campaign ended in a 1-1 draw at the Calderon back in October and a 1-0 Atleti win at the Bernabeu (courtesy of an Antoine Griezmann goal) in late February. And if you want the full breakdown: this is the 201st meeting between the sides. Of the previous 200, Real have won 102, Atléti 50 and there have been 48 draws. Recent form Real ended the La Liga season with 12 wins on the bounce, a run that began after that February defeat to their neighbours but one that was interspersed with a couple of less impressive European performances – namely that almost bizarre defeat in Wolfsburg in the last eight and the 0-0 draw at the Etihad in the semis. Atlético couldn’t quite match the late season form of their neighbours from across the Spanish capital. Their were 10 wins in those dozen post- derby league fixtures but crucially two defeats – at Gijon in mid-March then, painfully, at Levante on the penultimate matchday of the campaign. There were away defeats against Barcelona and Bayern too in the Champions League but Simeone’s side still found ways to get the job done. Kick-off … is 7.45pm BST.