“First and foremost, they are a world-class team, a world-class club, and they know how to win games. The block (from Madrid in 2018), especially the midfield, is still there. They still have many things of what they were then. Of course, his defensive line has changed a lot. Upstairs, Cristiano is not there, it’s true, but Karim is still there, now with the young Brazilians, so it’s a great team. It’s definitely good to have played finals before. I said it after winning the 2019 one against Tottenham, in all the finals that my teams had played before we had played better football but we lost. Therefore, we have to learn to win finals and we have already had a few; not Champions League finals, but some others. We have more experience and that’s probably good.”
