Long-time Liverpool professional Dejan Lovren has admitted to taking revenge on Sergio Ramos for his fatal foul against Mohamed Salah in the 2018 Champions League final with a deliberate elbow blow.
A few months after the premier league final, which Real ultimately won 3-1 after Salah’s early failure in the 30th minute, Lovren met Ramos’ Spaniard with the Croatian national team in November 2018.
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“Back then, Luka Modric tried to relieve the tension between me and Ramos,” Lovren recalled in an interview with the Egyptian TV broadcaster Sada El Balad: “We played against Spain with the Croatian national team – and I consciously have Ramos with me Hit the elbow and told him we were even now. “
He respects the Real captain as a player and for everything he gives for his team on the pitch, Lovren emphasized, after all, Ramos has won many titles, “but on the other hand, he has some behaviors that I don’t like and harm the players “.
Lovren: Ramos’ foul on Salah was on purpose
In Lovren’s eyes, Ramos’ foul against Salah was also a deliberate attack on the Egyptian’s health.
“I don’t want to make a big story out of it, but I think what Ramos did to my boyfriend was on purpose – so it was time he paid for it,” Lovren said, adding, “We were way better than Real before us Salah was injured in the final back then. His substitution was a major setback for us and after that they started to dominate the game. “
Lovren played in Liverpool from 2014 to the end and won the Champions League in 2019 with the team of German coach Jürgen Klopp. Lovren also had the upper hand with the Croatians 3-2 in the international match with Ramos in November 2018.
beginning of August the now 31-year-old central defender moved to Russia for Zenit St. Petersburg.
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