Sergio Ramos’s injury limits score-settling from the 2018 Champions League final but there’s a season on the line
Mohamed Salah did not disclose much in an interview with Marca last week but enough to let the Spanish sports daily with close ties to Real Madrid know that, yes, he is open to playing in La Liga one day and, yes, there is “special motivation” for Liverpool’s Champions League quarter-final on Tuesday. A reunion with the Spanish champions is one he and Liverpool have craved since their agonising night in Kyiv in 2018.
There will be no opportunity to exact personal revenge on Sergio Ramos with the Real captain sidelined by injury, but there always was more to a tie with major implications for two European heavyweights than Salah v Ramos part II. Just as there was more to the outcome of the 2018 Champions League final than the hold and twist by the Real defender that ended Salah’s involvement after 25 minutes. Loris Karius, left to walk alone after two dreadful goalkeeping errors, and Gareth Bale, with a 29-minute man-of-the-match display, saw to that.
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