Liverpool blanks Tottenham to win Champions Leaguehome/Sports/Football Times/Liverpool blanks Tottenham to win Champions LeagueMADRID: Mohamed Salah was off injured within 30 minutes of last year’s Champions League final but celebrating inside two minutes of this one. “Before the game, I looked at a picture of last year and we were so disappointed to lose the final,” Salah said on Saturday night. Concrete rewardWhen he was growing up in Nagrig, a small farming town in Egypt, Salah would play video games and invariably choose Liverpool as his club. If Salah was below-par so were Liverpool but it mattered little when the final whistle blew. Divock Origi’s late strike had wrapped up a 2-0 victory, Liverpool’s sixth European Cup and for Salah, redemption.

Source: Manila Times June 02, 2019 16:18 UTC