1-0 scoreline becomes fashionable in Champions League finals

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Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid meet in the Champions League final on Saturday 1st June. In the last 4 editions, all the finals have ended with a 1-0 or 0-1 scoreline, a streak that, although curious, is not the longest in the history of the competition with this result.

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A final is not just any match. This maxim is no less true for being over-repeated and obvious. The fear of losing what is only 90 minutes away from being won grips coaches and players, creating a situation that can lead to close games and short results, such as the final scores in the last four Champions League finals.
Since the 2019-20 edition, we have not seen more than one goal in title deciding matches. Nor less, true, as all those finals ended with a narrow 1-0 scoreline. It favoured Bayern Munich against PSG in Lisbon, Chelsea against Manchester City in Porto, Real Madrid against Liverpool in Paris and Manchester City against Inter n Istanbul. This run could well have started a year earlier, but Origi prevented it by scoring in Liverpool's 2-0 win over Tottenham in the 87th minute.
Gone were more eye-catching results in the current decade, such as Madrid's 4-1 win over Atletico (with extra time in between) in 2014, Barcelona's 1-3 win over Juventus a year later or ‘Los Blancos’ 1-4 win over the ‘Vecchia Signora’ and a 3-1 win over Liverpool in 2017 and 2018, respectively.
But this run, as striking as it is, is not a record in this respect. It won't be even if that result is repeated in Saturday's final between Madrid and Borussia Dortmund">Borussia Dortmund at Wembley. Between 1977 and 1983, as many as six consecutive finals in this competition ended 1-0 (and all of them home wins): Liverpool-Browns, Nottingham Forest-Malmö, Nottingham Forest-Hamburg, Liverpool-Real Madrid, Aston Villa-Bayern Munich and Hamburg-Juventus.

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