Champions League Final - Real Madrid v/s Liverpool: I love Mohamed Salah, he looks like Messi, says Ronaldo
'My result is 3-2 for Madrid,' says Ronaldo.
Real Madrid will lock horns with Liverpool in a much-anticipated Champions League final in Kiev on Sunday. Although both teams are filled with match-winners, the focus will surely be on Cristiano Ronaldo and Mohamed Salah.
Ronaldo has been in irresistable form for the defending champs this season. The Portuguese superstar would want to add another feather to his illlustrious cap ahead of the FIFA World Cup in Russia next month. But Salah, too, has been nothing less than a talisman for the Reds this season. He won the Premier League Player of the Year and has been instrumental in guiding Liverpool to Europe's biggest night in club football.
Brazilian legend Luis Ronaldo recently showered praise on Salah, saying the Egyptian striker has 'incredible quality'.
"Salah, I love him. He is an incredible player with a tremendous quality," Ronaldo told El Partidazo de COPE . "He looks like Messi. I recently read him saying that I had been his inspiration and I was excited."
As good as Salah is, Madrid will surely be the favourites to complete a Champions League hat-trick on Sunday. If they win, it'll be their third straight title and fourth in the past five seasons. Ronaldo backed them to get the job done: "My result is 3-2 for Madrid," he said.
Real can became the first team since Bayern in 1976 to lift the European Cup three years running, and thereby make it five consecutive titles for Spain. Ronaldo could win his fifth Champions League. That would equal the individual record, and leave him in sight of yet another Ballon d'Or.
Coach Zinedine Zidane, meanwhile, is on the brink of a third straight Champions League win as a coach. "We have already made history and we want to keep on doing it. It would be incredible," defender Raphael Varane told Madrid sports daily Marca.
"I still don't think we have realised the scale of what we are doing, but when all this is over we will. Through experience we know how difficult it is going to be, but experience gives more security and serenity as well."