{"id":39592,"date":"2018-05-03T15:45:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T13:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/05\/03\/liverpool-will-be-crushed-by-reals-legend-spanish-press-on-champions-league-final\/"},"modified":"2018-05-03T15:45:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T13:45:42","slug":"liverpool-will-be-crushed-by-reals-legend-spanish-press-on-champions-league-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=39592","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Liverpool will be crushed by Real\u2019s legend\u2019 \u2013 Spanish press on Champions League final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish media, unsurprisingly, is mostly backing Madrid \u2013 \u2018The final could be most unequal in a decade\u2019 \u2013 but Catalonia\u2019s El Mundo Deportivo hopes \u2018Hero Klopp\u2019 can deny the holdersAnd so, it is a repeat of the 1981 European Cup final between Liverpool and Real Madrid, only there is virtually no way this will be a repeat of that. Watch it back and it is awful: a dirty, disjointed game of barely any passes, even fewer chances and pretty much no football, played on a pitch that was embarrassingly bad. It finished 1-0 when the Liverpool left-back Alan Kennedy scored the only goal. It is hard to imagine that being repeated this time round: these two teams survived semi-finals that finished 7-6 and 4-3. Related: Only one thing seems certain for Real Madrid v Liverpool \u2013 it will be chaos | Jonathan Wilson Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2018\/may\/03\/liverpool-real-madrid-spanish-press-champions-league-final\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Liverpool will be crushed by Real\u2019s legend\u2019 \u2013 Spanish press on Champions League final<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish media, unsurprisingly, is mostly backing Madrid \u2013 \u2018The final could be most unequal in a decade\u2019 \u2013 but Catalonia\u2019s El Mundo Deportivo hopes \u2018Hero Klopp\u2019 can deny the holdersAnd so, it is a repeat of the 1981 European Cup final between Liverpool and Real Madrid, only there is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}