Brilliant Bale's brace brings Real Madrid another Champions League trophy

Real Madrid won the Champions League for the third season in a row thanks to a 3-1 victory over Liverpool in Kyiv.

Loris Karius made two catastrophic errors to gift Karim Benzema and Gareth Bale goals, with the Welshman also scoring a sensational overhead kick as los Blancos won Europe’s premier competition for the 13th time in their history.

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Greg Lea

Greg Lea is a freelance football journalist who's filled in wherever FourFourTwo needs him since 2014. He became a Crystal Palace fan after watching a 1-0 loss to Port Vale in 1998, and once got on the scoresheet in a primary school game against Wilfried Zaha's Whitehorse Manor (an own goal in an 8-0 defeat).