Jude Bellingham has spent the past 11 months watching Vinicius Jr receive the ball on the left side of the final third, surging towards goal like a shark through water. Bellingham has seen hundreds of times what Vinicius can do, in training and in matches, and he evidently knew what would happen from the moment he played his pass to the Brazilian.
Such is the way with Champions League finals of the last decade: you can come up with the perfect plan, create chances and quell the great players on the opposition side and then, when the crunch comes, Real Madrid win it anyway.
Real Madrid beat Borussia Dortmund at Wembley Stadium to win their 15th European title
LONDON (AP) — Jude Bellingham's parents arrived early at Wembley Stadium. When your son is about to complete a dream season, you don't want to miss a thing. In his first Champions League final on Saturday, the Real Madrid star received a standing ovation from the Spanish team's fans when he was subbed off late in the 2-0 victory over Borussia Dortmund, Bellingham's former club. "I can’t have dreamed it much better than this,” Bellingham told TNT Sports on the field moments after the final whistl