Liverpool F.C. beat Tottenham 2-0 to become the champions of the 2019 UEFA Champions League on Saturday, June 1, 2019, in Madrid, Spain. To celebrate, the soccer team held a parade in Liverpool, England on June 2, 2019, with their new trophy in hand. </s> May 31 (UPI) -- The UEFA Champions League final between Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur is set for Saturday in Madrid. UPI has you covered with the full rosters and game time information.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp named his 23-man traveling squad on Friday. The Reds are bringing Trent Alexander-Arnold, Alisson, Rhian Brewster, Fabinho, Roberto Firmino, Joe Gomez, Jordan Henderson, Caoimhin Kelleher, Adam Lallana, Dejan Lovren, Sadio Mane, Joel Matip, Simon Mignolet, James Milner, Alberto Moreno, Divock Origi, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Andy Robertson, Mohamed Salah, Xherdan Shaqiri, Daniel Sturridge, Virgil Van Dijk and Georginio Wijnaldum.

Klopp and Pochettino are permitted to name up to 12 substitutes for the clash.

Spurs reached the final after beating Ajax 3-2 in the second leg of a semifinal match. Liverpool made the final in dramatic fashion, beating Barcelona 4-3 in aggregate scoring, capped off with a 4-0 blowout on May 7 at Anfield in Liverpool, England.

Liverpool will be a different team in the final, playing with formerly injured stars Salah and Firmino. Spurs also managed to get to the final without Kane, their superstar striker.

Real Madrid defeated Liverpool in the 2017-2018 Champions League final. Liverpool is a five-time champion of the tournament, with its last title in 2007.

"We learned a lot in that time since we are together," Klopp told reporters Friday. "A lot of players have been together for three years, some players have been together for a year. This year we learned a lot again, we are a completely different side to last year. So the final was not too important for our improvement, the final was like a starting point again for the next steps. That's how we saw it, that's how we wanted to use it and that's what we did. But from the game we couldn't learn a lot, to be honest.

Tottenham has never won the Champions League. Liverpool and Tottenham each have two wins and a tie in their last five meetings.

"I think now, we're living the dream and I hope the dream finishes in the best way and we win the final," Pochettino said. "That could be the most beautiful history in football. We are going to give our best to win the trophy. We have an amazing opportunity but the journey was also amazing." </s> Liverpool players, staff and management rode three open-top buses around town. They arrived only hours earlier from Madrid, after beating Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 in the final Saturday.

Beginning with club captain Jordan Henderson, the players passed around the large European Champion Clubs' Cup, as it paid its sixth visit to the city.

It was the first Champions League celebratory parade in Liverpool since 2005. The club also took home European honors for the tournament's predecessor, the European Cup, in 1977, 1978, 1981 and 1984. Divock Origi of Liverpool -- who came on to score the second goal -- celebrates with his medal after the match. The Champions League trophy is seen on display inside the stadium prior to the start of the final between Liverpool and Tottenham on Saturday. Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur players and their fans observe a minutes silence in memory of Jose Antonio Reyes prior to the start of the final at Estadio Wanda Metropolitano in Madrid. Moussa Sissoko of Tottenham Hotspur pleads with referee Damir Skomina after a hand ball call early in the final. Liverpool's Egyptian forward Mohamed Salah celebrates after scoring the opening goal on a penalty in the second minute of the match. Liverpool supporters in the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool react to Salah's goal. MADRID, SPAIN - JUNE 01: Liverpool fans show their support prior to the UEFA Champions League Final between Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool at Estadio Wanda Metropolitano on June 01, 2019 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Matthias Hangst/Getty Images) Liverpool defender Joel Matip (L) and Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane battled for the ball. Kane made his first appearance in 55 days, after an injury sustained in the Champions League quarterfinal. Tottenham supporters in Flat Iron Square in London react as they watch the final. Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp earned his first Champions League final win and broke his spell of six consecutive defeats in major finals. The parade began at Allerton Maze and will culminate in the city's waterfront area. Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson estimated in a tweet that 250,000 people were in attendance, along with 250 members of the global media. </s> Former Liverpool forward El Hadji Diouf believes his old club has the edge going into the Champions League final against Tottenham Hotspur.

The two English clubs will go head-to-head in a battle to claim Europe's elite club competition in Madrid on Saturday.

The Reds failed in their bid to lift Europe’s most prestigious club trophy last season, having stuttered to a 3-1 defeat to Real Madrid at the NSC Olimpiyskiy Stadium, Kiev.

Liverpool have impressively managed to beat former champions Barcelona and Bayern Munich en route to the showpiece event, whereas Spur have made their way past the likes of Manchester City and Ajax to meet them.

Diouf, who was contracted to the Anfield giants from 2002 to 2005, reckons Jurgen Klopp’s men are in a great position to get the better of their fierce rivals in the final.

“I want Liverpool to win because I’m a Red boy,” Diouf told Goal.

“Also, winning the title will be an icing on the cake for what they did in the semi-final against Barcelona.

“Tottenham are a fantastic side because no one expected them to get this far, so Liverpool must be focused against them because most times the best team end up losing.

“Everyone is optimistic about the Reds winning because they are playing back to back in the Champions League final, but I think they are a really powerful team with a great manager in Jurgen Klopp.”

The teams will contest the first all-English final since Manchester United defeated Chelsea on penalties in Moscow in 2008.

Tottenham are expected to parade their full squad for this match at Wanda Metropolitano, with an adductor injury ruling out Naby Keita for Liverpool. </s> Liverpool beat Tottenham 2-0 at the Wanda Metropolitano with Mohamed Salah and Divock Origi scoring the only goal of the game in the 2nd minute.

The Egypt international converted from 12 yards after Moussa Sissoko was adjudged to have handled inside the area.

Liverpool were not at their blockbuster best against Tottenham but got the job done, ensuring they win the Champions League for the sixth time in their history.

For Spurs, though, it means that their sparkling European campaign ends with nothing to show for it. </s> When referee Damir Skomina pointed to the spot to give Liverpool a penalty after just 21 seconds, another thrilling night of Champions League football looked to be on the cards.

After a season of truly jaw-dropping comebacks, it seemed the only logical conclusion. Both Liverpool and Tottenham were involved in two of the most extraordinary semi-finals the game has ever seen, both recovering from three-goals down to secure victories against Barcelona and Ajax respectively.

With that early penalty, it appeared certain that the Champions League final would deliver too and treat us all to another festival of football.

But in the end, both sides played out a thoroughly forgettable finale in the pressing heat of Madrid.

The early goal was a cruel red herring. Jurgen Klopp's rock'n'roll, pulse-smashing football was replaced by a pacemaker protection service, while Tottenham, whose coach Mauricio Pochettino had boasted about the fitness of his side before the game, laboured like a team who had taken to the field after a night-cap.

It was a point not lost on supporters and pundits alike.

'I've never seen two Premier League sides make so many unforced errors,' bemoaned BT Sport's Glenn Hoddle.

'It wasn't the most entertaining game,' added Rio Ferdinand. 'We've all played in finals, it's about getting over the line and getting the trophy.

'The fans won't care how they played today, they got the job done. This season (Liverpool) have been fantastic. If they'd finished the season without a trophy it would've been devastating for this football club.'

The Reds did manage to get the job done thanks to goals from Mohamed Salah and Divock Origi, but they played without the exuberance and flair that has characterised their campaign.

The Madrid heat certainly played its part, with temperatures pitch-side in excess of 30 degrees at kick off.

Concern was also raised beforehand about the match sharpness of both sides, with neither team having played a competitive fixture for three weeks.

Klopp and Pochettino were expected to organise behind-closed-doors fixtures to alleviate this potential problem, but on Saturday's showing, it made little impact.

It followed the sluggishness of the Europa League final on Wednesday. Again an all-English affair, the Baku-based final saw Chelsea and Arsenal sleepwalk through the first half before the Blues took control.

The first half of the Champions League final was similarly worse than the second as neither side committed to seizing the game.

Any early momentum - hinted at by Liverpool's extremely intense pre-match warm-up - was quickly nipped in the bud by the early penalty, which certainly altered the Reds' approach to the match.

The second half was a slight improvement as Tottenham increased the pressure on the Premier League's runners-up.

Klopp, noticing the lethargic nature of his side's performance, uncharacteristically made two changes before the hour mark.

One of them ultimately paid off. As Spurs edged ever closer to Alisson's goal, Origi delivered a sucker punch to ensure Liverpool would win their sixth Champions League title - albeit in underwhelming circumstances. </s> MADRID — No tears of pain this time, just redemption for Mohamed Salah.

Only 108 seconds were needed to banish the Champions League final heartbreak of a year ago.

Once Salah dispatched his early penalty against Tottenham, Liverpool was on the path to a sixth European title with a 2-0 victory on Saturday.

And a year after defeat in the final to Real Madrid, Juergen Klopp has his first title after four years as Liverpool manager.

A shoulder injury forced Salah out of the Kiev showpiece last year.

This time it was Tottenham midfielder Moussa Sissoko’s arm that gifted Liverpool the early penalty opening — blocking Sadio Mane’s shot after 21 seconds — and Salah converted from the spot after a video review check.

“I have sacrificed a lot for my career,” Salah said. “To come from a village, to go to Cairo, and to be an Egyptian at this level is unbelievable for me.”

On a hot and humid night in Madrid, Tottenham came to life only in the final 20 minutes of its first European Cup final.

But Liverpool completed the job in the 87th minute thanks to one of its semifinal saviors.

Divock Origi had to accept a place back on the bench despite producing two goals while deputizing for the injured Salah last month. But the substitute had the final big say in the Spanish capital, rifling a left-footed shot inside the far post.

After two losing finals since triumphing in 2005, Liverpool finally rose to third in the all-time list of European champions behind 13-time winner Real Madrid and AC Milan on seven titles.

Few fans — even from Liverpool — will want to watch just how it was achieved.

Both sides had gone three weeks without playing. It showed.

The sharpness was deficient, as was the ability to string passes together.

“When we look back on tonight we aren’t going to think it was a sluggish game,” Liverpool-born defender Trent Alexander-Arnold said. “We are going to think we have just won the European Cup.”

Tottenham will have only regrets as its luck run out after a season of comebacks and great escapes in the competition with a squad that had no additions.

Lucas Moura’s goal in Barcelona in December carried Tottenham into the round of 16. The Brazilian’s hat trick last month then completed a turnaround against Ajax. The reward in Madrid was a watching brief from the bench for two thirds of the game.

Instead, Harry Kane was thrust into the starting lineup despite 53 days without a game since limping off with an ankle injury in the quarterfinal first leg against Manchester City.

The striker was largely anonymous as Tottenham, which finished 26 points behind Premier League runner-up Liverpool in fourth place, couldn’t even get a shot on target until the 73rd minute.

Alisson Becker scooped up a spinning shot from Dele Alli and made a double-save from Son Heung-min and Moura with 10 minutes to go.

It was goalkeeping that made the difference, showing $85 million was well spent by American owner John Henry after Loris Karius was banished for making costly mistakes in last year’s final.

“You have a goalkeeper who makes difficult things look easy,” Klopp said. “Thank you very much.”

No wonder Klopp was relieved after six losing finals, stretching back to his spell at Borussia Dortmund.

“Did you ever see a team like this? Fighting with no fuel in the tank,” the German said.

Victory against Tottenham came six years after Dortmund was beaten by Bayern Munich in the Champions League final.

Klopp is now European champion for the first time.

“I am so happy for my family,” he said. “They suffer every year when we go to a final, the last game of the season.”

The penultimate game saw Klopp miss out on ending Liverpool’s 29-year English title drought by a point to Manchester City in the Premier League title race.

“We are doing good stuff,” Klopp said on the field amid the celebrations in Madrid. “People are always saying, ‘Why didn’t you win anything?’” </s> BRIGHTON, England (AP) — Earning 97 points is almost always enough to win the Premier League. Not for Liverpool, which had the misfortune of running up against a Manchester City team setting new standards of excellence.

Only for 21 minutes during Sunday's season finale was the title in Liverpool's hands.

But by completing the season with a 14th successive victory — coming from behind to overwhelm Brighton 4-1 — City finished a point ahead of Liverpool and retained the trophy.

An English title drought that has clocked up 29 years rolls on for Liverpool. It's no consolation that Juergen Klopp's side combined with City to amass 195 points for the highest Premier League tally for the top two.

The only comfort for Liverpool is that it didn't sign off the season on Sunday with a 2-0 victory over Wolverhampton. While City has an FA Cup final to come to try to complete a domestic treble, Liverpool can win a sixth continental title if it beats Tottenham in the June 1 Champions League final.

The one major trophy missing in the City trophy cabinet is the European Cup. It's the target for the Abu Dhabi ownership and manager Pep Guardiola who has shown he can conquer the Premier League.

Captain Vincent Kompany has been part of City's four title triumphs since 2012, having previously won under Roberto Mancini and Manuel Pellegrini before the Guardiola double.

"It was the hardest and most satisfying Premier League title win ever," Kompany said. "Liverpool was exceptional, I don't mean to rub it in, it is what it is, they didn't deserve to lose."

Ten minutes after Liverpool went in front against Brighton through the first of Sadio Mane's two goals, City fell behind at Brighton.

Although Sergio Aguero leveled 83 seconds after Glenn Murray's header, it took Aymeric Laporte's header in the 38th minute to put City back in control of its title destiny.

That goal turned out to be the title-clincher, with City's anxieties only eased in the second half by record-signing Riyad Mahrez netting and Ilkay Gündogan scoring from a free kick.

It was on the south-coast exactly 21 months ago where Guardiola's first title-winning campaign began.

By the time the blue-and-white streamers had rained down on the City players on Sunday night, 201 goals had been scored and 198 points collected across the two title-winning campaigns.

Long forgotten is the spell four months ago when Liverpool blew the chance to go 10 points clear of City.

Instead the title hinged on Liverpool's only defeat of the campaign in January to City, which could afford to lose four times and still emerge victorious.

"As long as City are around," Klopp said, "with the quality they have, the power, the financial power and that stuff, then it's not any other team will pass them easily, that is clear. So we need to be very, very close to perfection to win the Premier League as long as this is the case."

Tottenham qualified for a fourth successive season in the Champions League after an unlikely series of results failed to materialize, leaving north London rival Arsenal finishing a point behind in fifth.

Christian Eriksen's free kick clinched Tottenham's 2-2 draw with Everton and Arsenal beat Burnley 3-1. Arsenal could still make the Champions League if it beats Chelsea in the Europa League final on May 29.

Chelsea was already sure of its return to the Champions League going into the final day and sealed third place — 25 points behind Liverpool — with a 0-0 draw at Leicester.

Manchester United slumped to its first league loss to Cardiff since 1960 in front of many empty seats as fans left Old Trafford before the final whistle.

The 2-0 collapse ensured United finished in sixth place — just where the record 20-time English champions were when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer replaced the fired Jose Mourinho in January. A bright start to Solskjaer's interim reign saw him rewarded with a three-year contract in March, but United has endured a miserable run since then.

There was a three-way split for the Golden Boot as Liverpool duo Mane and Mohamed Salah finished level on 22 goals with Arsenal forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. Both Mane and Aubameyang netted twice on Sunday.

With doubts over his future, Rafael Benitez will hold talks with Newcastle owner Mike Ashley after completing the season with a 4-0 victory over relegated Fulham.

Crystal Palace's club doctor has said he and his family were racially abused by a young child near Selhurst Park ahead of the team's 5-3 home victory over Bournemouth. </s> Real Madrid go for their record third straight title of the Champions League era, but they must get by the highest-scoring team in the tournament's history in Liverpool.

Real Madrid play for their third consecutive UEFA Champions League title — which would be a record in the Champions League era — but to win it, they must get past Liverpool, the team that scored more goals than any team ever to play in the Europe’s elite tournament, as the UEFA Champions League Final will live stream from 70,000-seat Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex in Kiev, Ukraine on Saturday.

Liverpool scored a stunning 46 goals with 10 of them coming from Premier League scoring champion Mo Salah, the major reason the Reds who finished fourth on the domestic table will play in their first Champions League Final in 11 years.

But Liverpool remains the most successful English team on the European stage, with five continent-wide championships. But only one of those came in the Champions League era, which began in 1992, when Liverpool defeated AC Milan in 2004. The English side returned to the Champions League Final three years later, but fell to Milan in that title match.

Liverpool enters this contest tipped as underdogs by the oddsmakers, which seems unsurprising given that they are facing the reigning, back-to-back European champions — a club that has a record 12 European championships in their trophy case.

To find out how to watch alive stream of the Real Madrid vs. Liverpool 2018 UEFA Champions League Final, see the streaming instructions at the bottom of this article. Kickoff for the biggest game of the year in European soccer is scheduled for 9:45 p.m. Eastern European Summer Time at NSC Olimpiyskiy Stadium in Kiev, Ukraine, on Saturday, May 26. In the United Kingdom, that start time will be 7:45 p.m. British Summer Time, while fans in the United States can log in to the live stream at 2:25 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, or 11:45 a.m. Pacific.

While Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has a chance to win his fifth UEFA Champions League title, more than any other single player since 1992, Liverpool Manager Jurgen Klopp is battling a personal curse. Klopp has been on the losing end of his last five championship final matches in all tournaments. But Klopp says his side enters the game with full confidence in their ability to send the defending champs home on the losing side.

“Experience is very important and I’m pretty sure a second before the game Madrid will be more confident than us. But it doesn’t matter because the game doesn’t stop there, it only starts,” Klopp said. “They’ve not played us and we are Liverpool — not only a good football team, but we have in our DNA to go for big things.”

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Liverpool F.C. defeats Tottenham Hotspur F.C. by a score of 2–0 to win the 2019 UEFA Champions League Final.