Klopp: Losing league will only increase desire to beat Madrid

JÜRGEN KLOPP has urged his Liverpool players to take their frustrations out on Real Madrid and gloss an incredible season by winning the Champions League. Liverpool’s manager was unmistakably solemn after his team’s attempts to wrestle the Premier League out of Manchester City’s grasp proved unsuccessful, even though they beat Wolves 3-1 on a dramatic final day. It was not one of Liverpool’s best performances and there were moments as they tried to find a breakthrough when you wondered whether the emotion of it all might count against them next week in Paris. Klopp, though, was adamant that Liverpool had the resilience for one last push in what will be the 63rd game of a campaign that has already seen them win both the Carabao Cup and FA Cup. ‘This season is absolutely incredible, and it doesn’t end here — it ends next week,’ said Klopp. ‘We will try absolutely everything. It’s never, ever happened before that you are completely without knocks going into a final. We had our knocks, obviously. ‘It’s tough, you saw that here, the early goal really didn’t help us. In the end, who cares? When you win the game that’s it. ‘We will have now five days to prepare for the final and that’s what we will do. Then we face an incredibly experienced team but that’s really okay. Of course,