Ancelotti’s Real Madrid find a new hero in Dani Carvajal to clinch 15th Champions League title

Madrid barely had to go through the motions to win. Vinicius Jr even got his customary breakaway goal. Jude Bellingham gets his first Champions League medal to make it a double in his first season, even if this was not his finest game. It didn’t need to be. It was all so inevitable. This time, not even Dortmund could have been fooled by the usual rope-a-dope, the near-cruelty of how Madrid seem to give you a chance.