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Alisson vows Liverpool won’t look back at last year’s Champions League final heartbreak as the Reds prepare to begin this year’s competition against Napoli amid poor domestic form
- Alisson Becker insisted Liverpool have moved on from Champions League hurt
- The Reds lost 1-0 to Real Madrid in the 2020-21 final in Paris earlier this year
- Jurgen Klopp’s side begin their new campaign away at Napoli on Wednesday
- They are in poor domestic form but it is a chance for them to put down a marker
Paris in May is a memory that is proving hard to shift for Liverpool.
The club’s 10th European Cup final was a wretched affair from start to finish, with the frustration of losing to Real Madrid exacerbated by the horrific events outside the Stade de France.
For all that Liverpool dazzled last season, there is a nagging feeling that they didn’t show their true selves against Real and the UEFA technical report, published last month, argued that the impact of a long campaign caught up with them in match No 63.
Liverpool lost 1-0 to Real Madrid in the final of last year’s Champions League in Paris
Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker has insisted Liverpool won’t look back at the final
Jurgen Klopp said after that 1-0 defeat that supporters should ‘book their hotels’ for Istanbul next June, so determined was he to put things right, but for one of his squad no extra motivation is required as they return to European action in Naples.
Alisson Becker arrived at Anfield in the aftermath of a Champions League final defeat in 2018 and he can sense the same level of focus to go one better. True, it is early to be making such declarations — not least as Liverpool’s form has been erratic — but the goalkeeper is positive.
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Source : dailymail
