Daily Mail

Boasting stops as Real get serious

- PETE JENSON in Madrid

FORGET about those T-shirts with the big No 13 on the front — there will be no complacenc­y from Real Madrid going into the Champions League final. It looked arrogant when Madrid players pulled on those shirts soon after the whistle against Bayern but the message was only ‘let’s go for the 13th’. Facing Liverpool, Real know they have a game on their hands. History, Jurgen Klopp and Mo Salah tell them as much. The last time Madrid lost a European Cup final, it was against Liverpool. Madrid know, too, that the last time they underestim­ated Liverpool they ended up looking foolish. Before the teams met in the Champions League last 16 in 2009, Real Madrid’s acting president Vicente Boluda used the phrase les vamos a chorrear which translates as ‘we are going to p*** on them’. Boluda elaborated: ‘At home we will win 3-0. At their place they

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