When you've scored the previous best ever goal in a Champions League final then you're the perfect man to comment on the one that overtakes you. Zinedine Zidane didn't need words to show what he thought of Gareth Bale's goal.
In 2002 at Hampden Park Zinedine Zidane won the Champions League final for Real Madrid with a goal against Bayer Leverkusen that was probably the greatest goal in a Champions League final.
For very good reason it's been repeated time and time again. Roberto Carlos passing to Figo, the Portuguese midfielder playing it back to the Brazilian, Carlos smacking the ball into the box and Zidane beautifully vollying it out of the air and into the net, perfection.
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Since then Zidane has found quite the habit of winning the trophy as a manager, becoming the first man to win it twice in a row and now, against Liverpool, the first man to win it three times in a row.
The bad thing for the Frenchman though was seeing his crown as best goal in a final taken by one of his own players, the treachery!
Zidane's reaction to Gareth Bale's first goal is absolutely perfect:
Of course it's not even the first overhead kick that a Real player had scored in the Champions League this season.
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In the quarter final against Juventus Cristiano Ronaldo scored an overhead kick in the first leg in the Allianz Stadium and Zidane's reaction to that goal was eerily similar:
Honestly though we can't get enough of this goal, it's just ridiculous:
Bale had only been on the pitch around two minutes when he scored the goal. It came at the end of a ridiculous flurry of three goals in thirteen minutes.
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Karim Benzema but Real ahead after a mistake from Loris Karius, Sadio Mane equalised soon after and then Bale produced one hell of a moment!
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