Jurgen Klopp used to be the eternal bridesmaid in finals. The German is slowly removing that unwanted tag but Liverpool fans must be prepared to suffer on Saturday evening. The Reds never do it the easy way.
1) 2016 League Cup: Liverpool 1 Manchester City 1 (Man City won 3-1 on penalties)
Having scrambled past Mark Hughes’s Stoke on penalties in the semi-final, Klopp led out the Reds in a suit. Klopp doesn’t like suits and there wasn’t much smartness about his team’s performance. Daniel Sturridge was anonymous, Lucas played centre-back and Simon Mignolet let a Fernandinho shot through his legs. Ho-hum. Phil Coutinho grabbed an equaliser with just seven minutes to go and the legend that is Divock Origi almost nicked it in extra time. The real hero was Willy Caballero, saving from Coutinho, Adam Lallana and Lucas in the subsequent shootout as Liverpool fell short.
2) 2016 Europa League: Liverpool 1 Sevilla 3
When Dejan Lovren landed on his considerable derriere in celebration of a last-gasp comeback clincher against Dortmund in the quarter-finals, Klopp kicked off his first chapter of Famous European Nights At Anfield. The only problem was that Unai Emery’s Sevilla, four times winners of the competition in the previous ten years, were waiting in the end game. Liverpool played well in the first half with Sturridge netting an outrageous outside-of-the-foot job. The Reds also had two legitimate penalty shouts waved away. Unfortunately, Alberto Moreno forgot to switch the lights on for the second half as Sevilla took over the gaff in Basle as Liverpool imploded. The German admitted they “lost faith” after the equaliser. Not quite the believers yet.
3) 2018 Champions League final: Real Madrid 3 Liverpool 1
By the time the squad arrived in Kyiv, resources were literally down to the premium first XI and a few broken goods on the bench. Liverpool went hell for leather in the first 20 minutes as they smashed into Los Blancos with fury. Madrid blocked…
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