MADRID -- Real Madrid believes in itself. And has more "hunger" than before. The Merengue team, which will be looking for their third consecutive Champions League title when they face Liverpool next Saturday, will come out "to bite" on the field.

As if it were the first time. For several players, like Dani Carvajal, it will be the fourth Champions League final in five years, after defeating Atlético de Madrid on two occasions (2014 and 2016) and Juventus (2017). And according to the right back,

"It will possibly be my fourth final, but one day I played the first one and I have more desire. I will not question the hunger of Liverpool or ours, but we are going to come out fighting," said the Real Madrid defender in a press conference held this Tuesday during the Open Media Day prior to the final that will be played on May 26 in Kiev.

Carvajal emphasized that Real Madrid's European success lies in the "ambition" of the team currently led by Zinedine Zidane.

"When you see the squad we have, we are ambitious. It's something very important; the team has remained in recent years and it's not easy to maintain the hunger. Nobody had won two Champions League titles and that shows that the level is very high," he said.

The Spanish player denied that the Real Madrid team could be influenced by the pressure to end the season with a title after finishing third in the League, 15 points behind the champion Barcelona, and the failure in the Copa del Rey.

"For us, there is no pressure. We have more desire than pressure, it's a bit of stage fright, not wanting to lose," said the player, although he recognized that the season "has been strange."

"It has been a season with ups and downs, but we are in the Champions League final and it is the most valuable card in the deck. If we don't win, it wouldn't be fair to label it as a failure because it's only 90 minutes. If we don't win, we will enter the dressing room with our heads held high," said Dani Carvajal.

For the defender, faith in themselves has been crucial to reaching the final. According to him, reaching the final after eliminating PSG, Juventus, and Bayern Munich is the strongest proof that the doubts caused by an inconsistent first half of the season have been cleared.

"Since the draw was made (for the round of 16), we couldn't stop seeing videos in the media of Cavani, M'Bappe, Neymar, saying there was fear... And we thought 'we are not that bad, damn it.' In the end, we let them talk outside the field, because we speak inside," he pointed out.