Manchester United won it twice in the Premier League era under Sir Alex Ferguson, and also
reached the final twice more, losing to Barcelona in 2009 and 2011.
James Wade, who has
reached the final twice will take on Huybrechts and looks more than worth a wager at around evens.
He has yet to win the Champions League, despite
reaching the final twice, but this week refused to say whether he was planning for next season with Juventus amid rumours he has been taking English lessons.
But in our nine semi-finals we have only
reached the final twice, losing to West Brom in the last of the two - legged finals in 1965 - 66 (the following year the final was held at Wembley for the first time), and then in a replay to Liverpool in 1980 - 81, when we were a second tier team taking on the best club in England at the time.
Not exact matches
Before they won it the last time, they had
reached the
finals at least
twice, if I recall correctly.
Ovechkin scored
twice to finish with an NHL - leading 49 goals and played almost the
final two minutes of the Washington Capitals» 5 - 3 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Saturday night in each team's regular - season finale trying to
reach 50 for the eighth time in his career.
In three seasons in Madrid, Ozil won the La Liga title, the Copa del Rey and the Supercopa de Espana, but Real have lifted the Champions League
twice since he left, while Arsenal have not
reached a quarter -
final in the last six years.
Jupp Heynckes: The 72 - year - old has
reached the
final in all three of his previous #UCL campaigns, winning
twice (Real Madrid in 1998, Bayern in 2013) and losing once (Bayern in 2012).
Inspired by his brilliance, the club finished as runners - up in the First Division
twice and finished in third place once, as well as
reaching an FA Cup
final in 1954.
BARCELONA: Barcelona hailed Lionel Messi as «The King» and he handed Chelsea the royal punishment by scoring
twice to
reach 100 Champions League goals and end their quarter -
final hopes.
The 25 - year old Neymar found the net
twice to help Barcelona
reach the quarter -
finals before they were being knocked out by the Italian giants, Juventus.
Under Serse Cosmi, they came within five minutes of
reaching the round of 16, only to concede
twice to FC Barcelona in their
final Group C match and miss out on second place.
Under the guidance of Leonid Viktorovich Slutsky, CSKA
reached the UEFA Champions League quarter -
finals for the first time in 2010, and have lifted the domestic cup
twice.
Heynckes has
reached the
final in all three of his Champions League campaigns, winning the competition
twice: with Real in 1998 and Bayern in 2013.
In seven attempts so far they have
reached one semi-
final, one quarter -
final, three last - 16 rounds and gone out in the group stages
twice.
It also shows the continuing value to the Spanish clubs to be able to negotiate their own broadcast rights - Real earned more than
twice the sum of Atletico Madrid in broadcast income despite their city rivals winning the league and
reaching the Champions League
final.
Not only will enemies hit harder, but by the time you
reach the
final difficulty they'll be moving at
twice the speed as well.