FOOTBALL: Liverpool’s ‘mentality monsters’ face one last hurdle at Uefa Champions League final

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The Reds play their last match of a brilliant season in the Uefa Champions League final. They could become the first English club to win the FA Cup, League Cup and Champions League in the same season.

Paris – Liverpool. Real Madrid. European footballing royalty competing for the biggest club title in world football in the City of Light 41 years after they met on the same stage, in the same competition and in the same city, is serendipitous.

The scores were locked at 1-1. Liverpool needed to win to secure qualification for Champions League football in 2022. Alisson headed in the winning goal, and now, 53 weeks later, the Reds are on the brink of a seventh Champions League title thanks to that unlikely goal. The first silverware Klopp delivered for Liverpool was the Uefa Champions League in 2019, which the Reds won 2-0 over Tottenham Hotspurs in Madrid.

“I remember when I went out after 30 minutes or something, it was the worst moment in my career,” Salah told reporters this week. “I was really, really down in that time. I never felt that feeling before in football, especially because it was the first Champions League final for all of us, or most of us. We managed to win it the year after, so that was also kind of revenge in a way. But we meant it in the best way possible.”“I don’t believe in revenge.

 

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