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Looking forward to this game tonight like a kid awaits Christmas.

Wow, we have a home team in the CL Final.

Man City thrilled us all season, but I think the fun Liverpool gave us just shades it for me.

Let's not forget the knockout stages, Liverpool's aggregate scores were 5-0 (Porto), 5-1 (Man City) & 7-6 v Roma. Ridic scorelines.

The duo of Man City games were both too good, the 1st leg was the Salah masterclass, who'd have predicted 3-0? Back at The Etihad, Man City briefly looked like they might do the business, then Liverpool hit 2 goals to kill the tie.

Even the Roma game, after looking cut & dried, ended up edge of seat stuff. 

All that after selling their jewel in the crown, Coutinho. In fact, the £140 milly sale of Coutinho never affected their performances or results one bit as far as I could see. van Dijk made a huge difference, & I love both Alexander-Arnold & the boy Robertson. Not sure Karius inspires confidence, but he's not terrible.

Real Crazy Gang stuff, & I love Klopp to bits.

Can they win? No idea, but it ought to be a fun watch.

Hopefully we can rev up a few blondes tonight & have a fun sweat.



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So who's gonna win?

Anyone dare to forecast the score, & how many goals?

Liverpool to blitz them in a 20 minute tarantino style slaughter / gore fest.

Then crawl over the line. Gassed

Love Robertson's story. Six years ago he posts a tweet about how shit it is to be an 18 year old with no money whilst toiling as an amatuer player. Now he's in the biggest club game there is.

Would love Liverpool to win

should be a cracker either way

Liverpool to go one up earlyish, Ronaldo to equalise in the 72nd minute and Ramos to nod home the winner in the 87th

Ha, very specific that, John, except "earlyish", we need the time of that early Liverpool goal.

That's the dream.

12th minute

I have bought Ramos goal minutes so the 87th minute would be very nice personally

1-1 ht
2-2 ft
Real to win in extra time

3-2 to Liverpool

Liverpoo 2(Salah, Mane) - Real Madrid 4(Isco, CRonaldo 3).

Sorry lads, hope I'm wrong.

This is the big day...no more waiting..

I don't want to watch any more highlight reels of Madrid.
I don't want to read anymore tactics about how we beat Madrid.
I don't want to hear anymore about the experience of Madrid.

This is our moment, this is the beginning of our time.

This is the day the Liver-bird beats triumphantly from our chest,
This is the day our rivals magnificently hate us,
This is the day we beat the once mighty Madrid,
The day we win our 6th of many European Cups.

3-1 The Redmen

Liverpool city centre has been on lock down since midday.

Queues to get not into bars but into streets with bars.

Concert square has been cordoned off by police. You can hear the city from across the Mersey.

Nutty scenes, will be utter carnage if they pull the win off.

10.35pm tonight, BBC1, "Kenny", a 75 minute documentary about Kenny Dalglish.

I guess the appetite for it will be influenced by the result.

Really looking forward to the game.

Madrid  survive the first wave.

Brace brace for the second...

Ugh.

Salah getting injured was not in the script.

The fella looks devestated.

Judo skills from Ramos.

Attacking-half touches before and after Salah left the Final in the 31st minute…

- Before: Liverpool 111, Madrid 57

- After: Madrid 149, Liverpool 7

^^^^^^

Never knew the stats, but yes, the game turned on its head completely after Salah departed. They looked great until then, and easily had the best of it.

Now, the sting has gone out of the game for me, gone flat.

Klopp needs to find some answers at half time or defeat looms.

Oh wow.

What a mistake.

Haha.

Karius strikes again.

Quite glad there's been a goal, hopefully more to follow.

Graham knew.

Better, game on.

Jesus.

Here we go.

Gasp.

As good as it gets that

World Class eh, bloody brilliant

He's going to look great doing that in a spurs shirt in August.

His price just increased by 50%.

Lordy, what a nightmare Karius has had.

Safe hands karius.

New levels of comedy.

I'd advise him to stay away from twitter for a few months

Must be awkward on the trip home, feel sorry for him.

Gerrard level calamity.

Looks like bale is going to leave Madrid at the very top

4 champions league medals. Job done

I felt sorry for him till he was crying at the end - pathetic. Salah and Carvajal too. Get a grip you pussies

Ronaldo too, according to what he's just told a reporter on TV

Never seen 2x keeper errors so bad, let alone in the same game. Can't see how he recovers. I'd get Joe Hart for free and sell both calamity keeps.

Agree with the hideous pooftah tears. Dry your pls gentleman. £300k per week, luxury lifestyle, hot girls and sobbing because of hurty shoulder. Something unsettling about it.

It been ok to cry for a few years now.  Blokes carry handbags and drink wine in pubs these days.   Bet you and Mantis lose it when Bambi's mum dies; dare say he struggled to hold back the tears when Ed Balls made his exit from Strictly.   

Pretty shit that nobody on his team had a word with Karius.  I saw Bale and another Real Madrid player go over, but took a while for somebody to make it over from the bench.

Thought it was a good game and Liverpool played well on the whole.  Karius obviously had a couple of shockers and Lellana showed why he isn't in the England squad.  Clearly needs a few more games to get sharp.

Think men crying is fine and cried several times during the wedding. Meghan and Charles walking down the aisle past Diana's empty seat was a proper choker. Can't remember ever crying when substituted in a football game though. Chiefly because I never got subbed due to my huge talent but also playing Sunday league you'd get the shit kicked out of you by your team mates and laughed at by the sparse crowd. Losing it when Bambi's mum died is perfectly normal reaction.

Yep, men crying is fine by me, I cry at all kinds of performance art at the drop of a hat and also did  a few tears at the Harry wedding. Crying out of self pity just seems so self indulgent.

Agree doobs, sloppy teammateship to not put an arm around him despite that though.

Anyone who watched the last half hour of tonight's Kenny Dalglish documentary and never shed a few tears must be a well hard sort.

Excellent stuff, but hugely emotional when dealing with Hillsborough.

Sure about that? ;)

2 very poor mistakes but its the first one I can't comprehend. Yeah the fumble for Bale's 2nd goal was really bad, but you'll see this kind of mistake with a keeper every now and then, its nothing new.

The first error is baffling though. Benzema is right in his line of sight. Does he think that the ref will blow up should Benzema block it? Is he even thinking at all? I just don't understand.

We need someone to take Hart off our hands, Liverpool are welcome to him.

Ronaldo is very sour faced when the final isn't all about him.

Liverpool were the better team until the Salah injury. Unless he has broken his collar bone, i thought he should have carried on. Just get it straooed up, as it the biggest game of his life  Disapointing that he came off .
Pretty sure Ramos knew what he was doing though, as he locked Salahs arm when he fell, and Salah had to go with the fall.
Once Salah came off, Marcelo was able to play another 20 yards upfield, and the game totally changed.

As for the Madrid goals, they were all one in a million goals.  The much maligned Liverpool back 4 were excellent, but there is nothing you can do when your keeper throws in 2 goals.
There is no way that Karius can play for us again. How can the rest of the team have faith in a keeper who has done that? The goalkeeping coach should be looked at as well, as the 2nd error was just basic technique.

Totally agree looked the better side till salah went off but we will never know now doesn’t help when the keeper throws in two and we had no one to come off the bench as much as I like lallana he’s nowhere near fit at the moment.Always thought we needed a new keeper in the summer but hopefully this will make klopp do it we’ve had a great journey this,I went to all the home Europe games and we are match for anyone on our day just need some reinforcements.

There's not a team I've enjoyed watching more this year than Liverpool.

There's so little middle ground for them even within a game they span comedy and brilliance often from minute to minute.

Keegan's Newcastle on juice

I was very disappointed with Jordan Henderson

of course up against a world class midfield but completely anonymous. Didn't bode too well for this summer

Conversely I though Robertson and Alexander-Arnold performed really well. much to like about both players

A lot has been written about post game

Three RM players went over to console Karius, not a single Liverpool player did

Karius was in bits, but still went over to his fans a bit later

You win and lose together as a team don't you? what was wrong with giving him a word or two rather than (probably not deliberately) ostracising him?

Things like this can be damaging to the individual leaving aside he's a football player.

I think back to Enke (great book by the way) who struggled so much with depression and i hope the club stands by and supports Karius even if they don't have him as first choice next season

Ha. Yup, 100% agree.

Always a fun watch.

More of the same, please.

Really?

I'm sure Salah would've loved to have continued (and he did come back on for a moment) but he was in very obvious discomfort and that's not good for him or the team to crack on in those circumstances.

Bit ridiculous to say he should've just got on with it if it wasn't a breakage.

Agreed its a great book, albeit very sad.....but that is quite a leap there Tighty!

I'm 100% sure Salah would have stayed on if he could.

From watching him all season, he never feigns injury, & seems to just want to get on with the game & play.

maybe, but last night will live with him. He'll need support and i didn't think being left to fend for himself in the aftermath by his team-mates was a great start

Agreed.

You'll never walk alone eh?

Ha.

T & C's apply, clearly.

"A piece on Loris Karius, who was left to walk alone last night. Terrible mistakes — we can all agree on that, like we can agree LFC need a top-class goalkeeper. Can we also agree he’ll be suffering enough without “death threats” from keyboard warriors?"

Oliver Kay in the times

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/08e6ae92-613e-11e8-944f-627fac6f8256

Found it very strange only the unused squad players went over to the keeper

The first one was silly but even so a one in a million thing obviously last one was a rick

Can see what you are saying re Enke but from memory of his excellent book his loss of his child seemed to heighten things the pressure of Barca then topped it up

Liverpool fans covering themselves in glory again with online threats to Karius.  What with attacking the Man City team bus its been quite a season.

Lovely bunch of fans eh.

Maybe it's their year next season.

Disgraceful scenes..so glad I got to watch the whole game yesterday ..Liverpool ran around a lot for 25 mins but a stretch to say they were the better team even at that point.

Karius gives their pedestrians an easy out.

For all their pluckiness Madrid were able to affect the game by bringing on arguably one of the best players britain has ever produced; klopp had to weigh up the pros and cons of sending on Danny Ings

The La Liga "lack of competitive balance" revenue system allows Zidane to have a bench that in itself would be 7 of a team that would go deep in the CL

Klopp has Solanke as the last striking option

I suppose this summer they will buy a lot more (Keita is coming,Fekir next etc) to have real strength in depth next season

Statement: After carefully reviewing game film and integrating a detailed history, physical examination and objective metrics, we have concluded that Mr. Karius sustained a concussion during the match May 26, 2018.

90 seconds before he threw the ball out and Benzema intercepted

Load of bollocks.

Only fair to replay the game with Ramos suspended.

lol @ replaying the game