Gareth Bale
Gareth Bale scored a spectacular overhead kick in the 2018 final while Liverpool goalkeeper Loris Karius made two errors which led to goals

The manager says that the final is not about revenge for Real Madrid.

Four years ago in Kyiv, Madrid won the final with a 3-1 victory.

The forward, who went off injured in that match after a tussle with Ramos, has said that the Reds have a score to settle.

This was a tough night for us.

I don't think revenge is a good idea, but I don't believe in revenge at all.

Mo wants to put it right. In Germany, we say you meet twice in life.

It will be a great story if we get the chance to win it again, but it won't be because of what happened last year.

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Real Madrid beat Manchester City in the semi-finals. He said he was motivated through the roof after what happened last time.

The Spanish champion won in the year thanks to goals from Benzema and Bale.

In the 30th minute, Ramos pulled down Salah, who left the field in tears.

The European crown was won by the Reds in Madrid a year later.

Serio Ramos and Mohamed Salah
Salah's injury made him a doubt for the 2018 World Cup but he did recover to play

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There is a good chance that Thiago Alcantara will play at the Olympics.

The Reds won their final game of the season against Wolves on Sunday, but the Spaniard was forced to leave the game at half-time with an injury.

He will train this afternoon.

It looks like he can be part of training tomorrow. That would be helpful.

It is surprisingly good. After the game, I was not very positive about it, but we got news that it doesn't look bad. We will see.

Looking for the edge

Trent Alexander-Arnold trains wearing analytical head gear
Trent Alexander-Arnold trained on Wednesday wearing analytical data head gear

They are looking to get any edge they can on Real Madrid and that includes wearing brain monitors during training.

The Reds have been utilising the expertise of a neuroscience company for some time now, with Klopp praising the impact of the firm in his side's FA Cup penalty shootout win against Chelsea earlier this month.

"We work together with a company, four guys, and that's what we do", said Klopp after the Wembley victory.

Two years ago, they got in touch with us. One of them said that they can train penalty shooting. I told them that it sounds interesting, come over.

We met the German guy. We worked together and this trophy is for them.

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