Klopp’s tough preparation for the real hit

Liverpool will meet Real Madrid on Tuesday. The repeat of last year’s final will be the fifth meeting between the two top clubs since the 2018 final. And for them Red it is a duel associated with bad memories.

Starting with the 2018 final. Salahs Shoulder injury and concussion from Loris Karius the 3-1 victory of the white ballet left a bitter aftertaste to this day. In 2021 you met under the spell of the Pandemic in the Quarterfinals on each other. In ghost games, the royals won 3-1. Which brings us to the most recent head-to-head encounter: Real’s flattering 1-0 win in the 2022 final.

In preparation, Klopp takes another look at the final

At the fourth attempt, Jürgen Klopp now wants to beat the royal family from Madrid for the first time – and “tortures” himself for it kind of himself, he revealed at the press conference. In an attempt to learn important lessons from last May’s 1-0 defeat, the Liverpool boss watched the match afterwards for the first time.

“I immediately realized why I didn’t watch this game anymore, but I had to,” Klopp explains. “It was real torture.” You played a good game and could win, but you didn’t because Real were more efficient. “We have seen how experienced Madrid are and how little they are deterred by the chances of the other team. They do not lose confidence for a second, defend with legs and know: ‹Us Opportunities will come›. You can definitely learn from them.”

What particularly frustrated him when analyzing the final was his players’ lack of courage to run against the whites. “Because it was a final, we didn’t take enough risks, we wanted to protect ourselves too much from counter-attacks,” Klopp was able to draw perhaps decisive insights from the “torture” of the final analysis to beat Real for the first time. on the fifth attempt to become a Liverpool coach (dti)

Source : Blick