Sunday's historic UEFA Champions League final in Lisbon will be the first played behind closed doors.
File: Paris Saint-Germain's Argentine midfielder Angel Di Maria celebrates with Paris Saint-Germain's Brazilian forward Neymar after scoring his team's second goalduring the UEFA Champions League semi-final football match between Leipzig and Paris Saint-Germain at the Luz stadium in Lisbon on August 18, 2020.
No fans are allowed in, as has been the case throughout this unprecedented 'Final Eight' tournament in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic."It is true that it will be odd to play behind closed doors. We would have liked to have our supporters there but I know they are supporting us where they are. But this is still the Champions League," said Mbappe on Saturday during a virtual press conference.
While the atmosphere in the ground will be surreal for the few hundred allowed to attend, the match promises to be fascinating, pitting together two teams whose domestic dominance is almost total and who were both comfortable winners in the semi-finals. "This is exactly why I came here. I always said that I wanted to go down in my country's history. is another chance to do that," said Mbappe.
They have already pocketed a German league and cup double, with the Bundesliga title their eighth in a row. "We've always played with a high line and ultimately we've got results doing that so we won't change too much," Flick insisted.
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