Last season Liverpool suffered – decimated and without injuries – spitting blood until they finished in the top four of the Premier League (third in the final, beating Chelsea in the final) and secured a ticket to the Champions League this year turns out to be found out that last year’s performance wasn’t just mediocre.

Because aside from already having won the League Cup, he plays Chelsea in the FA Cup final on May 14 and claims to win the Premier League to the end (he’s at -1 to Manchester City with four games to go) the Merseyside team has once again managed to pause in Europe in recent years.

After the obstacles of Atletico, Porto and Milan in the groups (became the first English team to get the “6 to 6” in the group stage), Inter in the “16” and Benfica in the quarterfinals, eliminated in the “4” with two wins over Villarreal, who had been eliminated in the previous two knockout rounds at Juventus and Bayern, completing first place for the grand final on 28 May.

The Reds will take to the pitch of the ‘Stand de France’ that night as one of two sides, against either Manchester City or Real and that fact alone should be a success for the entire Jurgen Klopp should not be treated as a separate event, but as a continuation of a brilliant presence in the Champions League with the German at the helm.

It is Jurgen Klopp’s seventh season on the bench (he took over the helm in October 2015) and since then he has turned Liverpool into a side that will ‘swallow’ their rivals in Europe considering this will be their third Champions League final will be held in the last five years and the fourth European final in general from the 2015/16 season.

Those who are in a hurry to say that from their history Liverpool is a team that has Europe in its DNA should be noted that Klopp has achieved a modern footballing miracle as he keeps raising the level all these years without that having to manage money from Paris, City, Real or Barcelona, ​​while Liverpool have only featured in the Champions League once in seven seasons ahead of their three finals in the last five years (2018, 2019, 2022).

Klopp’s paths with Liverpool in the three finals:

First final (2017-18)

After being banned from Europe in the 2016/17 season, Liverpool returned dynamically in 2017/18, having not only sent a message to Manchester City that they would fiercely reject it within limits (with its presence in the second round of the Premier League). ), but knocked out on the way to Kyiv in Europe. In the group stage, the Reds took first place with 12 points, beating Sevilla, Spartak Moscow and Maribor while rocketing in the knockout stages. In the ’16’ stage they overcame Porto with a 5-0 aggregate score, in the quarter-finals they defeated Manchester City with two wins and a 5-1 aggregate score, while in the semi-finals they ‘completed’ qualifiers 5-2. against Roma in the semifinals at Anfield to meet Real Madrid in Kyiv. Where he could have celebrated the trophy, but the amazing Bale (2 goals) and the dolt Karius (2 goals – gift to Real) sent the Madriders the heavy trophy for the 13th time in their history.

Second Final (2018-19)

In the 2018/19 season, Liverpool put on an amazing run in the Premier League, losing the title to Manchester City in photo-finish (98 points for the Citizens, 97 for the Renz), but the god of football decided it wasn’t worth it Without a title, this team and the final remained at the top of Europe 14 years after the epic in Istanbul. In the group stage he was second behind Paris Saint-Germain and had to beat Napoli at Anfield in the last game to get the ticket, then the Reds found Bayern eliminated in the ’16’ with victories in Munich and Porto in the quarters with a 6-1 aggregate followed by the…remuntada. Barcelona won 3-0 in the first semi-final at the Camp Nou but failed to ‘kill’ Liverpool in the final of that game (an incredible opportunity from Dembele from all Messi) and in the second leg Anfield became a burning volcano for the Blaugrana. Origi and Vainaldum dressed…Salah and Firmino (both injured) and the 4-0 made history as Liverpool arrived in Madrid and beat Tottenham 2-0 in the English Civil War to secure the 6th Champions League to win in its history.

Third Final (2021-22)

And we must… now. In the past two years Liverpool have failed to advance beyond the quarter-finals in the Champions League (they were eliminated by Atletico in ’16’ in 2020 and by Real in ‘8’ last year), but this year looks set to who’s in the mood to sweep everything into her diava. And their European presence has been extremely impressive, with the Reds only winning groups and in the knockout stages in Milan (2-0 v Inter) and Lisbon (3-1 v Benfica) to reach the ‘4’ and there to prove that the red submarine is far superior to the traditional yellow prevalent at Anfield and Theramica. Somehow the third Champions League final in the last five years is a fact, Klopp’s team is waiting for one from City or Real, dreams of sewing the seventh star on the shirt at the end of May…