Karius walked off the field with his face covered amidst loud applause from Real Madrid fans and boos from some Liverpool fans.
Klopp didn't give him a comforting hug.
The head coach was angry.
This is the Champions League final, not any ordinary league. On such an important occasion, two goals were conceded due to low-level mistakes, resulting in the score now becoming a 3-3 draw. Klopp has reason to relegate Karius to the sidelines.
Karius' future at Liverpool is basically over. In fact, because of the influence of the Champions League final, no other giants would dare to ask for him. His career may be cast into a shadow.
After the substitutions were completed and the game restarted, the morale-boosted Real Madrid did not shrink their defense in an attempt to drag the game into overtime. Instead, they attacked aggressively in an attempt to resolve the battle within 90 minutes.
But their intentions failed to materialize and instead they conceded the goal.
In the 91st minute of stoppage time, Modric tried to pass the ball to Ronaldo, but Wijnaldum accurately predicted it. He suddenly made a flying tackle midway, successfully intercepted the ball, and then passed it to the side. Willard responded.
Real Madrid's stars changed their expressions and immediately returned to defense, but how could anyone run the ball so fast? What's more, they have spent more money than Liverpool in the league and Champions League. Even if they return to defense at this point, they can't run as fast as they did in the first half.
Willard directly passed a long pass and found Firmino who ran out of space at the front of the penalty area.
Firmino made a breakthrough with the ball, attracting double-teams from Ramos and Varane, but then distributed the ball to Lallana on the right.
Lallana is naturally not as well-known as Salah, Firmino, Mane and others, which caused Real Madrid to ignore his defense and missed someone in this counterattack.
Lallana caught the ball and rushed into the penalty area. Faced with the attacking Navas, he calmly faked a shot and made a dunk. After knocking Navas down, he was about to take the ball toward the baseline and hit the empty goal from a small angle.
As a result, Navas' reaction speed was beyond Lallana's expectations. Navas, who had fallen to the ground, bounced his limbs on the ground and pounced in the direction of Lallana's ball.
But this time Navas failed to pounce on the ball, but only pounced on Lallana's feet.
At the critical moment, Lallana did not forcefully stabilize his center of gravity, but fell down.
"beep……"
The referee's whistle sounded. Goalkeeper Navas received a yellow card for a foul in the penalty area and awarded Liverpool a penalty kick.
All the Liverpool fans jumped up from their seats and cheered wildly. The players also rushed forward, pulling Lallana up and hugging him in celebration.
Lallana has made a contribution.
This penalty kick is almost equivalent to a death sentence for Real Madrid, because Liverpool has a penalty kick rate of 100% in Velarde.
Therefore, Real Madrid players were quite anxious and surrounded the referee trying to get him to change the decision and rule Lallana for diving. Navas tried his best to defend himself, saying that he did not pounce on Lallana and that Lallana was diving.
But the referee saw it clearly. Regardless of whether Lallana was acting or not, it was a fact that Navas's throwing hand caught Lallana's foot.
There is no room for penalty kick changes.
In the end, Real Madrid had no choice but to accept the facts.
With many Real Madrid fans not even daring to open their eyes to watch, Velarde took a deep breath and steadily put the penalty kick into the goal.
"Goooooooooooooooooooal..."
"The penalty went in!!!"
"Willard, hat trick!"
"Liverpool leads Real Madrid 4-3 again."
"There's not much time left in the game. Will this be the winning goal?"
After scoring the goal, Velarde of course celebrated for a long time with his teammates to stall for time.
After the game restarted, Klopp once again took advantage of the substitution opportunity to delay Real Madrid's super counterattack.
In addition, not only Willard, but also Mane, Firmino, Lallana, etc., all returned to the defense to participate in the defense, using a bus and iron barrel formation to shut out all Real Madrid's attacks.
Even though the referee extended the injury time, in the end Real Madrid was still unable to turn the tide and drag the game into overtime.
After more than four minutes of stoppage time, the referee finally blew the whistle to end the game. Despite two low-level mistakes by their own goalkeeper, Liverpool still relied on Willard's hat trick and Firmino's header. He scored a 4-3 victory over Real Madrid and won the Champions League trophy for the second consecutive year. He became the first team to successfully defend the Champions League after its restructuring, and also became the first team in the world to successfully defend the Triple Crown.
"The game is over."
"Liverpool won the title and won another quadruple."
"There is no doubt that the decision to bring in Velarde was the right one."
"Villard's arrival not only helped Liverpool win the first Premier League title in team history, but also completed the unprecedented defense of the treble."
"This is a first in world football."
"There are also seven championships in the year, the first defense of the Champions League after the reform, the Premier League championship with 108 points, etc., any one of them is a record that can be looked up to."
"Moreover, if Liverpool can continue to win the English Community Shield, European Super Cup, and Club World Cup in the second half of the year, then Liverpool will successfully defend its seven-year crown."
"There is no doubt that this is a dynasty that belongs to Liverpool and the Red Army soldiers."
"And as long as Willard doesn't leave Liverpool, this dynasty may not be surpassed by any team for a long time in the future."
"Let us congratulate Liverpool, congratulate Klopp, and congratulate Velarde. They are once again on top of Europe and even the world."
The unprecedented success of defending the Triple Crown, coupled with the goalkeeper's mistakes and the penalty kick in stoppage time, this game is also quite exciting for the Liverpool players, and it is more difficult to win. Therefore, everyone's celebration after the game was quite exciting. Only Karius, who made two low-level mistakes and lost the ball, celebrated absentmindedly.
Obviously, he also understands that the countdown to his days in Liverpool can already begin.
After celebrating for more than 20 minutes, the podium was set up. The first award was the individual award. Velarde won without any doubt with 38 goals in 13 games, almost three goals per game. Two awards for top scorer and best player.
The best goalkeeper was of course awarded to Real Madrid's Navas. Although Karius won championships and medals, he could not be awarded the best goalkeeper with just two low-level mistakes in the final.
Then everyone in Liverpool lined up to see the runner-up Real Madrid players and coaches come to the stage to receive their awards, and then Villard and other talents came to the stage to receive the championship medals.
Finally, amid the applause of all Liverpool fans and neutral fans, and the singing of "We are the Champions", captain Henderson won the 2017/2018 Champions League trophy on behalf of Liverpool.
Liverpool completed the unprecedented defense of the Triple Crown, creating a Red Army dynasty that was unprecedented and perhaps unprecedented.
