LONDON (AP) — Whatever you call it, just don’t call it luck.

Real Madrid has dominated European club soccer’s biggest prize like no other. Coach Carlo Ancelotti was asked on the eve of the Champions League final if he could explain it.

“There is something special in this club. It is important to study this,” Ancelotti said on Friday. “It is something special. For what reason I don’t know. History, conditions, quality of the players, character ... it happened so many times it cannot be coincidence.”

Borussia Dortmund will face in Saturday’s final at Wembley Stadium a club that never seems to read the clock, that never seems to say die, and repeatedly defies the odds to pull off improbable comebacks in a competition it prizes above all others.

The most recent was substitute Joselu’s two-goal cameo in the dying stages of the semifinal against Bayern Munich when the 14-time European champion was minutes away from elimination.