Liverpool ace Loris Karius brutally slammed by Champions League hero Didi Hamann
That’s the damning verdict of Didi Hamann, who won the competition with the Reds in 2005. Karius went into Saturday’s showdown with Real as Liverpool’s No 1 having won his personal battle with Simon Mignolet this season. He left Jurgen Klopp with a goalkeeping headache though after his two huge errors handed a third Champions League title on the spin to Real. Karius threw the ball into Karim Benzema before watching it nestle in the net for Real’s opener, and he followed that up seven minutes from time when he diverted a long-range Gareth Bale shot into the goal.
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Karius was upset and apologetic after the full-time whistle, making his feelings known to the travelling Liverpool support. Hamann has now slammed his countryman in the wake of his Champions League final showing, which came 13 years on from his own heroics in Istanbul. "My sympathy with Karius is limited," Hamann told German outlet Sport Bild. "We don't have to discuss that he decided the final with his two mistakes.
GETTY Liverpool ace Loris Karius brutally slammed by Champions League hero Didi Hamann
GETTY Liverpool ace Loris Karius brutally slammed by Champions League hero Didi Hamann
"Something like that can also happen to a professional footballer. But what I didn't like was his behaviour afterwards. "To publicly show his suffering after the final whistle was just as unnecessary as his tearful asking for forgiveness from the Reds fans." Hamann then went on to claim Karius has no right to have an ego like that of Cristiano Ronaldo at this stage of his career.