Jürgen Klopp's side staring at bitter end to an excellent campaign - The Times

So near, yet so far. “There was so much fun in the game,” Jürgen Klopp said, trying to make sense of it all in his post-match press conference, “but in the end we lost. And that’s not so much fun.”

For Liverpool, that would be a strange, sad epitaph to a season like this. This performance brought plenty of reminders of the outstanding improvement they have made — so spirited, so relentlessly consistent in the Premier League, so much more mature than when they reached the Champions League final 12 months ago — but surely the damage inflicted in the closing stages by the incomparable Lionel Messi last night is beyond repair. As for their Premier League title challenge, it has been thrilling, but waiting for Manchester…

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May 02, 2019 at 06:01AM