Real Madrid survived an early Atletico Madrid onslaught to reach the Champions League final 4-2 on aggregate on Wednesday and set up a mouth-watering summit clash against Juventus.
Those three players are the club's backbone that won Champions League finals in both Lisbon and Milan and now will attempt to defeat Juventus in the final at Cardiff.
For Atletico, Saul Niguez and Antoine Griezmann were the goal-scorers.
Dybala and Juventus have the chance to dethrone Zidane's defending champions Madrid at Millennium Stadium on June 3, but the Argentina global heaped praise on the Turin favourite.
Here, AFP sports looks at five key issues facing Atletico if they are to compete once more for their first ever Champions League next season.
This is not the first time that these two teams will meet in the Champions League final. We all knew Real madrid would win.
Atletico won 2-1 at the Vicente Calderon Stadium but lost 4-2 on aggregate.
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Spieth birdied two of his first three holes amid calm conditions, but he gave those strokes back with bogeys on Nos. Told that no one had made eagle on both par 5s on the back nine in the opening round, McGirt didn't have an answer.
The duo played alongside each other at Sevilla before becoming rivals when Alves moved to Real's great adversaries Barcelona. "I hope they keep supporting us because they help our game".
"My best form was the week of the two legs against Barcelona".
Many believe Brazilian midfielder Casemiro has got away with a number of bruising challenges this season, and his robust style of play has seen him being booked on quite a few occasions.
Isco's goal came about after a quite brilliant piece of skill from Karim Benzema that left three Atletico defenders for dead to the left of the penalty area.
The final will not be easy as Italian giants Juventus are playing very well and can score at any time thanks to Argentine striker Gonzalo Higuain.
The Frenchman only took charge 16 months ago but could now become the first coach to guide a club to back-to-back Champions League titles, following Real's penalty shoot-out success over Atletico in last year's final. Robbie will be in the hot-seat for kick off but we'll be building up to the action throughout the day with team news, chat and reaction to all the possibilities on the penultimate day of the season. It will be the first club to have a chance to defend its title since Manchester United made consecutive finals in 2008-09.
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