If not, the Reds could suffer at the hands of the brilliant Vinicus Junior.This should take you to the Header & Footer tab. If Salah and Trent Alexander-Arnold fire, then Klopp’s side should prosper. Of all the battles which could decide the outcome of the final, the contest between Liverpool’s right flank and Real Madrid’s left could be the most significant. “Hopefully he will then give it to me!” he smiled. He has already visualised the moment Henderson lifts the Champions League trophy aloft in Paris. “In my mind, I am always trying to think positive all the time,” he said on Wednesday. His goal against Wolves last Sunday was his 31st of the season in all competitions, and secured him his third Premier League Golden Boot in the process, but he has netted just four times in 19 appearances since February, having scored 27 in 31 prior to that.įor some players that might be a concern, but not to Salah, whose ability to switch himself onto the next challenge is one of the things that marks him out as a special talent. Salah is likely to be key if Liverpool are to reverse the result from Kyiv, but it is fair to say his form has slowed of late. “I don’t believe in revenge but I understand it,” he replied. Jurgen Klopp, too, was asked about Salah’s “extra motivation”. “You didn’t mean it, did you, Mo?” laughed the Reds captain as Salah, who was sitting beside him, simply grinned. Jordan Henderson laughed when asked about the idea of revenge in a press conference on Wednesday. Some have criticised Salah for his public comments.įederico Valverde, the Real Madrid midfielder, even accused the 29-year-old of “disrespecting the badge” of the 13-time European champions.ĭietmar Hamann, a Champions League winner with Liverpool in 2005, suggested he should have done his talking after the game. We should not, then, be surprised that he has been so open in admitting his desire for payback this time around, even if the man he would really like to get one over on, Ramos, left Real for Paris Saint-Germain last summer. “I thought I needed to remember it,” he told reporters after Liverpool’s 2-0 win, in which he had scored the opening goal. He looked back on that photograph while preparing for the following year’s final against Tottenham. No wonder he is sporting a thousand-yard stare. Salah has his arm in a sling, a Liverpool tracksuit draped around his neck and an attention-seeker best known for extravagantly sprinkling salt on overpriced steaks mugging it to the camera beside him. He remembers the tears and the numbness, the appallingly-timed selfie request from Nusret ‘Salt Bae’ Gokce outside the dressing room. He remembers the bitterness and the anger as Sergio Ramos, the villain of the piece, revelled in his misery afterwards. He remembers the helplessness as, without him, Liverpool fell short in their quest for glory. “I never felt that way before in football.” “It was the worst moment of my career,” he said on Wednesday. He remembers the pain of the shoulder injury which forced him to leave the field before half-time in Kyiv. It’s why he will be more motivated than ever when he runs out at the Stade de France on Saturday night – “motivated through the roof!” as he put it this week.
Liverpool may have moved on, gloriously, from that night in Kyiv four years ago, but Salah still remembers it vividly.
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