Gareth Bale’s status for Saturday’s Champions League final (live, 2 p.m. ET on FOX) remains up in the air. The prolific winger has been in and out of Zinedine Zidane’s lineup all season with various leg and ankle injuries. Bale missed the second leg of the quarterfinals against Bayern Munich and both legs of the semis against Atletico injured.
He was supposed to be recovered in time for Saturday’s final against Juventus, but that seems increasingly uncertain. The 27-year-old told Real Madrid TV he was “fully recovered” on Tuesday but then planted a large seed of doubt speaking with a different set of reporters.