As it happened: Courtois brilliance inspires Real Madrid to 14th Champions League win

Real Madrid became European champion for a record-extending 14th time after beating Liverpool 1-0 in a Champions League final that started 37 minutes late because of disturbing crowd issues outside the Stade de France.

Brazil winger Vinícius Júnior applied a close-range finish in the 59th minute from Federico Valverde’s drive across the face of goal, securing a win that gave Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti a record fourth European Cup title.

You can read the rest of our match report here.

Stay tuned to our websites for the rest of the wash-up from the final. And also tune into Stan Sport FC tomorrow night for a review of the match and the European season - I’ll be hosting it with Craig Foster and Mark Bosnich.

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Don’t let that match erase your memory of what happened beforehand, the unsavoury situation outside the stadium which led to kick-off being delayed.

We’ll learn more about that in the coming hours and days but for now, Liverpool has released the following statement:

“We are hugely disappointed at the stadium entry issues and breakdown of the security perimeter that Liverpool fans faced this evening at Stade de France.

This is the greatest match in European football and supporters should not have to experience the scenes we have witnessed tonight.

We have officially requested a formal investigation into the causes of these unacceptable issues.”

There are also reports that some fans held counterfeit tickets which contributed to the chaos.

...so this rings pretty true.

Dejected Liverpool players have just collected their runners-up medals. Now it’s time for the champions to collect theirs. Expecting Courtois to be named man of the match, by the way - what an unbelievable performance.

Carlo Ancelotti has his medal now, too - he is now the first and only manager to have won the UEFA Champions League four times.