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KLOPP: WE CAN STUN THE WORLD

- By IAN LADYMAN

LIVERPOOL manager Jurgen Klopp believes his team can shock the football world by beating holders Real Madrid in Saturday’s Champions League final. The Reds travel to Kiev for their eighth European Cup final and face a club that have won the trophy 12 times. ‘Let’s go there and try to perform to a level which maybe people will say is not possible for us,’ Klopp said. ‘But I know it is possible. All the things we need in this game we have already done plenty of times during the Champions League campaign and now we have to do it again against a

really strong team.’ Zinedine Zidane’s real Madrid side have won three of the last four finals and head to Ukraine looking for three titles on the bounce. Klopp said: ‘They are more experience­d and that’s a fact. if there was a market for experience, they should sell it. They would be even more rich than they already are. ‘it’s an advantage to be more experience­d but you can level it with desire and attitude and readiness and work-rate. That’s good and what i love in football. ‘We have a chance and that’s why i think, “Let’s give it a try”.’ Liverpool were joined in training yesterday by emre Can. The midfielder has been injured since mid-March but will travel to Kiev with the squad. Klopp said: ‘Ten days ago i was not thinking it was possible. The door is open and he is desperate to be part of it.’

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