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Champions League Final Flashback: Real Madrid and Liverpool's Kyiv Showdown in 2018

It's 2018, the date is May 26th, the venue is the Olympic Stadium in Kyiv, the event is the Champions League final and Gareth Bale has just done something remarkable.

Three minutes after being brought on as a substitute for Real Madrid against Liverpool, he rises to meet a Marcelo cross from the left-hand side.

Only he is not rising to meet it with his head.

Instead he is performing a bicycle kick, manoeuvring his body to connect perfectly with the ball with his left foot high in the air, sending it soaring over Loris Karius in the Reds goal and putting Real into what proved to be an unassailable 2-1 lead.