Klopp names reason for Champions League final loss

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The boss told France Football: “We had a fantastic season last year, although the result of the Champions League final was not what we were hoping for. Nobody was waiting for us there, even though, as the season progressed, we thought that the final was a possible goal.

“Everyone knows that Mo Salah’s injury has changed things. But not only that. We are not going to rewrite the story, but we played the last two months of last season with twelve valid players. We had to fight with Chelsea until the end.”

Talking about the Egyptian’s injury last month, the boss harshly denounced Sergio Ramos, however, not for the foul rather for his attitude, quoted by the Daily Mail: “Ramos said a lot of things I didn’t like. As a person, I didn’t like his reactions. He was like, “Whatever! What do they want? It’s normal!” No. It isn’t normal. If VAR is coming this is a situation where you have to look again, not to give a red card, but to say, “What is that?”

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“If you put all of the situations of Ramos together — and I’ve watched football since I was five years old — then you will see a lot of situations with Ramos. In the final the year before, against Juve, he was responsible for the red card for Juan Cuadrado.”

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