Liverpool v Real Madrid - Paris Champions League final 2022

After this season, Liverpool would be insane to offer Mo Salah a massive contract.

They badly need to recycle that team. I'd have Van Dijk out as well

Tough on Liverpool,better team lost,Courtois outstanding.

Ancelotti getting sacked in the morning

May 28, 2022 -- 8:53PM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:

Pool 1.9Madrid 5.0

Market did an ooopsy.

Liverpool not the better team

I;'m not sure they were outplayed but Liverpool certainly had much more possession.
Mane and Salah jaded and it showed.
Unlucky Liverpool to come up against a goalie at the top of his game.
"The Eyebrow" does it again.  What a record he has in this.

Unreal Madrid.
Great shout mesmerised.

Liverpool were good for the first 30 mins, but didnt create any clear chances. Madrid did a perfect job on them.

phenomenal number of times they've won this cup..unbelievable,jeff

Great Jon RM
P1ssed out the stain that is Liverpool

Hard luck Pool. Quite a poor performance though.

Sry, they had several clear chances.  You've got that wrong.  Just not their night.

Liverpool 0-1 Real Madrid

Real Madrid have had one of the toughest ever Champions League runs.

They played Paris St-Germain in the last 16, and last season's two finalists - Chelsea and Manchester City - in the next two rounds.

They came from behind against PSG, and Chelsea, and City.

And now they have beaten Liverpool in the final.

Well done winners

3 Petro teams and the the next best team beat while being outplayed in every tie with a veteran midfield. Real's most impressive CL win

Don't get the commentary narrative, that Liverpool were 'dominating'.

Only 2 or 3 close calls all night for Real

Liverpool should have been one down at HT too

Liverpool did not any 1 on 1 chances, they were half chances that a top keeper saved on this day.

absolute bridle job for RM

Did they let the tear gass off again???? Liverpool fans are cryin

Did they let the tear gass off again???? Liverpool fans are cryin

Fk it give em the mustard

3 finals and zero goals

5 and a half hours without scoring

Surely a record

Bale gets another CL medal. Totally undeserved.

Carbajal would've got MOM, if not for Courtois' saves. Vinicious, Benzema all played smart games. Liverpool a bit one-dimensional and looked jaded.

May 28, 2022 -- 10:43PM, sofaking wrote:

Bale gets another CL medal. Totally undeserved.

cant say the others weren't

Everyone said Salah and Diaz was crap........Mane was the worse player on the pitch

sofaking 28 May 22 22:43 
Bale gets another CL medal. Totally undeserved.

he's in the squad..sofe..so he gets another one
soon be catching up on the ones he won at Spurs

Michael Owen , kiss of death , karma

The front 3 were dreadful for Liverpool, Madrid knew what the front would do and just stood off them.

May 28, 2022 -- 10:37PM, hfink wrote:

Unreal Madrid.Great shout mesmerised.

muchas gracias

Klopp got it wrong with trying to fit 3 similar players in the front 3

should started with Firmino or Jota

Quadruple??? Two domestic cups on pens. Klopp manager of the whatever..absolute carp. Wake up bindippers.

Courtois MOTM, 2 absolute worldies. Hard luck scousers.

Jota is better than Diaz.

Couple of things.

Moving the final to Paris, with an english club, not the wisest thing.
St Petersburg, as with Moscow in 2008 you would have needed a ticket to enter the country.

Second.
All those muppets in the english media who say that Trent Arnold is a shoo in for the England Mens National Team surely have to accept that he is at best fourth in a very long queue behind Trippier, Kyle W and Reece J..

The kid cant defend. Simple as.
In the big games v the best opponents, it doesnt matter how good he is going forward, you just can not risk him.. Sorry.

YAA needs to LEAVE

BAMOS Real! Owen crying like a lil bitch! "Pool are still the best team in Europe".."the most fearsome" etc..

Bale gets another medal having played 7 Champions League minutes

Keep going on about '24 attempts on goal' like it is a measure of dominance.

They were mostly going yards over or wide, or weak,easily blocked.

I counted 3 moments worth mentioning..

Mane shot brilliantly saved by Courtois
Salah bottling the chance when Courtois rushed across
The Salah shot with a good save

TAA was better defending tonight,,,,, which shows how crap he was going forward

Diaz looks a skillful player, but I'm still not convinced that he's as good as the pundits make out. Might struggle to make an impact at this level.

Got that right, and about Courtois and Vinicious.

Hazard gets a winners medal too.

All those people saying he's never done anything in the Champions League proven wrong

Marcelo gets the trophy for the night... did he even play?

You were haring on about city creating 14 chances to 5 against real. Give it a rest

Madrid were in control in that 2nd half.  A couple of half chances for Liverpool in the 2nd half but you always felt when Madrid scored they were going to win it.  Their game plan was top class

A game away from having a better season than City. Liverpool still in a great place as a club

May 28, 2022 -- 10:58PM, lurka wrote:

You were haring on about city creating 14 chances to 5 against real. Give it a rest

Well that's the difference. 14 clear cut chances or very near misses/great saves was dominating. Liverpool were not.

City gave 2 penalties away better than any of the 14 chances

Their keeper should have saved the header and got to the first goal too but he tried to take it into his chest. He's a liabilty who repeatedly gets found out at CL level

Insane if they give Salah a big contract after that performance.

I see the bitter barsteward has found his voice again. Fergies performing flea, his groom of the stool. Two weeks ago he was a Man City supporter, tonight he's an ardent Real Madrid follower. Three things are sure, he's definitely an ABL. Liverpool will play in the Champions League again next season, difference between finishing sixth and qualifying. Ancelotti would never have got close with Everton.

Long old season for Pool, and Salahs generally quality finishing has left a lot to be desired over the past few games.

Agreed.  Jaded or transfer fixated.  Mane hasn;t been brilliant either.  Long, long season though and to pick faults is a little unfair.

If they keep talking on BT sport the commentators will send us to bed thinking Liverpool won .

Real Madrid have now won 14 European Cups , I remember their early ones when we first got European football matches on TV . They are the experts in winning .

Still cannot figure out why the first Real goal ( which was disallowed) did not stand , it looked like a valid goal . Maybe I don't know the rules , but it would have been allowed a few years ago before VAR .

Final delayed due to Liverpool fans with fake tickets shock horror

Trent AA didn't have a clue Madrid forward was lurking behind him as he never once angled his body to check if there was danger behind him hence him making absolutely no attempt to at least get any part of his foot,toe whatever to make a tiny deflection of the ball which would've saved a goal

Apparently the trouble before the game arose because some Liverpool fans had fake tickets .

No word that Real fans had fake tickets , will anyone explain ?

Klopp bottled it, like every expert was saying Liverpool would lose if he played Trent, and he played him anyway, and surprise, surprise he was at fault for the goal.

O dear Klopp is proper grumpy now he's not taken the defeat well

Klopp is a great "winner" but a sad, sad LOSER. Very hard to warm to that type of idiot.

Trent caught out for the goal but it also seemed to me that none of the midfield trio were able to get back either, although I may be mistaken.

Fair play to Carlo, won the competition with a new brand of boring football. 15 men behind the bus and hope. He couldn’t run a bath, let alone a football club. Bigger fraud than Alan Stanford

People blaming Alisson for the goal haven't a clue. He was covering the near post in the right position. It was a brilliant ball, Trent should have been nearer to Vini but prob wouldn't have cut it out if he was. It was really a ball the CHs should have cut out. Konate stepped up to play offside, if he hadn't he'd have stopped it. VVD also playing his usual positional/passve defending instead of going to the ball/Valverde. Robertson not even in the tv picture. They were all more at fault than Trent or the keeper. Teh ball should never have made it to the far post.

I think UK football fans have been told so often, by pundits and commentators that Liverpool and Man City are light years ahaead of the rest of Europe, that they have come to believe it. Real madrid have shown the UK biased media that it's simply not true. Real had a good game plan and executed it perfectly. In truth, it wasn't hard for them to win. In fact, it was probably even easier than they expected.

May 28, 2022 -- 10:57PM, BULLET TOOTH TONY wrote:

Marcelo gets the trophy for the night... did he even play?

He's leaving Real after being there for eleven years. He's been a great servant for them.

May 28, 2022 -- 11:47PM, ProSniper wrote:

Klopp is a great "winner" but a sad, sad LOSER. Very hard to warm to that type of idiot.

Yeah, Klapp is a very poor loser. He's a hard man to like (unless you're a Liverpool fan).

I agree lurka.  A very avoidable goal.

Like the other two European finals the loser here will look back and think it was one that got away. Although they had chances a fair few Liverpool players didn't seem to show up for some reason. Mane was atrocious. Has to be asked was it necessary for so much talk re his next contract on the week of this game? So one finalist out of six in the European finals and no winner for the best league in the world with all the money. Something for the usual media/pundits to ponder on before their next sermon on the EPL.

Hoping that Liverpool would win the game however theres not many teams that prevent Liverpool from scoring and Real Madrid did just that to add to Liverpools very few blanks this season twice v Chelsea in domestic cups, against Arsenal in 1 leg of the league cup semi final and the only time in the Premier league against Leicester.

It must be worrying that a team has failed to score in 3 Cup finals this season two of them after 120 kindles and to be honest if last nights game was 0-0 after 90 minutes then it was difficult to envisage them scoring in extra time as well.

It appeared appropriate me at least after about 65 minutes that they would not score as Des said it was quite easy for real Madrid.

Kindles? Wtf predictive text minutes

real madrid won fair and square.courtois great goalie well played him,but this season was a madness that should be swerved from now on,staying in the fa cup that goes right down to the wire of the season

Its funny. Talking football philosophy.
Real had to deal with the original and best Guardiola team, the Barca of 2008-2012.
Spanish teams came out of that era and not many teams in La Liga play the hi press, high defensive line.
Wheras Pep goes off to the Bundesliga and virtually every German team plays that way.
And now he comes to the EPL and from what I can make out every team in the top half of the english top division barring West Ham play a version of it.
Yet Spanish teams remain the best in Europe. They win UEFA tournaments every year. Wether its Villareal, Seville, Atletico or the Big 2.

You look at City and Liv and they only have one way of playing.
They dominate the EPL.
But the thing about League football is that at any given time half the teams are going to be in some sort of disarray, rebuilding, coming to the end of a managers run, aging players etc.
Factor in that our way of running VAR which seems to be outlawing any form of organised defensive football and its like Pep and Klopp are being given a free pass to win the league.
In Europe its a bit different.

To me, Real won like an old fashioned english team used to win. Stick and run, play on the counter, be organised.
Like what Joses Chelsea used to do, Fergus Utd and Rafa's Liv.

I know it sounds odd, but if those teams were around today, they would have the tactical versatilty to beat Pep and Klopp. Maybe not in the EPL which seems to be heading headlong into footballing NBA, but in ko competitions like the UCL there seems to still be a place for the defensive tactician.

Totally agree with above post
In Majorca plenty bars showing that **** last night
Tons red shirts about not many Scouse Accents
Shouting at tv either
No plan B

How can you stop Real Madrid win when they had best players in world
Win when they park a bus unbelievable club side

Solid post, tarpsy.

Game of fine margins.

Mane's chance gets tipped on to the post & in, then we'd now be having different conversations.

RM are a great side but rode their luck big time last night.

Game of fine margins.

Liverpool miss a couple of pens and they would have won nothing this season.

Exactly as I've said.

One off games, anything can happen.

On that point though, daggy, there's no telling what would've happened had they went 1 behind. People like to talk as if 1 moment/goal is the DECIDING factor of a match, which is utter nonsense. Real were supposedly dead and buried how many times in previous ties when going behind? Yet they kept reviving themselves. I don't believe in any of that "written in the stars" shyte.. but what I do believe in is quality, belief and tenacity can take you high places. That's Y Real won this CL,, and also Y Liverpool fell just shy of incredible quad..

People like to talk as if 1 moment/goal is the DECIDING factor of a match, which is utter nonsense.

It decided this match.

What about the dubious "offside" decision for the Benzema goal ?

Was the correct decision.

It's not an offside you see often with the scorer beyond the keeper but the ref assisting commentary on BT Sports explained it well.

Still came off Fabinho last via Konate so to say it was not deliberately off a Liverpool player before Benzema scored is open to interpretation. Fine margins

"It decided this match." which we only know AFTER THE EVENT. When Real scored it certainly didn't decide the outcome. Liverpool had more than enough time to alter the course. They didn't/couldn't. They failed to do so. Which is Y Real deservedly emerged victorious. End of.

Certainly didn't look deliberate to me.

Wouldn't call a ricochet a pass.

May 29, 2022 -- 3:02PM, ProSniper wrote:

"It decided this match." which we only know AFTER THE EVENT. When Real scored it certainly didn't decide the outcome. Liverpool had more than enough time to alter the course. They didn't/couldn't. They failed to do so. Which is Y Real deservedly emerged victorious. End of.

Lol.
Thanks Sherlock.

Real Madrid have simply fed off of other teams mistakes and were completely outplayed for the majority of games in all 4 knockout rounds living on a wing and prayer for most of it, they even lost to a team in the groups at home that nobody had ever heard of, it's a run that will never happen again, they've walked off with La Liga because it's a weak era for the league. I bet they honestly can't believe their luck, the previous Madrid winners under Zidane were not lucky. They went into every tie as favorites apart from when they played Bayern in 2017.

Spain didn't just dominate European football during Pep's era and beyond but Spanish sport was also doing well, Dr. Fuentes, courts ordering blood bags to be destroyed, Barca players running around like Duracell bunny's in the 90th minute not breaking sweat, etc.

Unless they sign some marquee players they wont be doing much in Europe next year, prime Ronaldo, Bale, Marcelo and Ramos all gone or going, Hazard a crook, Modric probably leaving at 37, Kroos old. Wouldn't be surprised if they went years without their next European Cup, 2030 and beyond, it's only a matter of time before Man City and PSG start winning the Champions League.

For the record I have Klopp as pound for pound the best manager in the world, to spend within your means, to have consistently fantastic recruitment, to play entertaining football and nearly win everything in a single season is remarkable achievement, not to mention having already won everything anyway. Compare and contrast that without checkbook Pep, outspends everyone in England then bends down at the end of the year whilst Linekar and the like queue up to whip out their dusters and polish his bald head telling him how great his is. Would not do a better job at West Ham than Moyes, would just play differently. Kind Regards.

How many Premier League titles has the "best manager in the world" won in his 7 years in charge ? With Liverpool fans claiming this bunch to be one of the greatest ever Liverpool teams ever (PMSL) then maybe he has underachieved.

cheers sniper.
Appreciate it

Klopp should have learned from last year and played Joe Gomez. Playing Trent was like giving the opposition a 1-0 head start.

op pic of Carlo smoking cigar, as well as pep quite partial to a stogie...

I think that klopp has to upgrade from the f@gs

Don Carlo.

True that Gareth Bale has broke Phil Neals record with the most medals

True that Gareth Bale has broke Phil Neals record with the most medals

True that Gareth Bale has broke Phil Neals record with the most medals

True that Gareth Bale has broke Phil Neals record with the most medals

True that Gareth Bale has broke Phil Neals record with the most medals

.... sorry my computer mustve burped

His Bale's medals, including his Golf medals too.