{"id":312,"date":"2026-05-29T12:20:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=312"},"modified":"2026-05-29T12:20:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:20:06","slug":"every-champions-league-final-ranked-from-worst-to-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"Every Champions League final, ranked from worst to best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"C\">\n<div>\n<p>When the Champions League final treated us to a second Madrid derby in three years, once again, it did not disappoint.<\/p>\n<p>Sergio Ramos was on target again, Antoine Griezmann missed a penalty, Dani Carvajal limped off crying and Stefan Savic missed a sitter all before we had even reached the hour mark.<\/p>\n<p>Atletico got their equaliser late on through Yannick Carrasco, just moments after Gareth Bale had seen his shot cleared off the line, as the San Siro was treated to a much more even period of extra time than the Estadio da Luz in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>It was a goalless half hour, though, making it the seventh Champions League final to be taken to penalties where, of course, Cristiano Ronaldo smashed home the winning spot-kick and Real were champions of Europe for an 11th time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Champions League final treated us to a second Madrid derby in three years, once again, it did not&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}