The Champions League final price draw once again gave Egyptian star Mohamed Salah the opportunity to keep his promise, after he succeeded him in last year’s final after losing to Real Madrid with Brazilian Vinicius’ goal in the French capital. Paris.
The spotlight is still on Real Madrid and Liverpool, after the draw drawn on Monday saw them face the round of 16 of the European competition, with the first match scheduled at “Anfield”, and the “Santiago Bernabeu” Madrid stadium will host the second leg.
The Egyptian champion after last season’s Champions League final
Salah has always experienced bad times and difficult conditions against the Spanish capital club, as the Liverpool top scorer has not tasted the taste of victory against the white team in all the confrontations he has fought, both with his current club shirt and with Italian Roma, as well as losing two Champions League titles against the club in which he has been crowned 14 times in its history.
The “30-year-old” winger winner of the 2019 European Champions put himself to the test before the final of the last edition, after Real Madrid had sworn on more than one occasion, stressing that they wanted to avenge the defeat of the final 2018, but he broke his promise and lost the title again.
Salah has spoken about Real Madrid multiple times after his side qualified for the 2021 Champions League final, which included threats, threats and revenge as well as provocation, and the story began after Liverpool qualified for the final. at Villarreal’s expense, before Real Madrid and Manchester City return to the semi-finals, when he said: I want to face Real Madrid in the final, I want to face them for a personal reason.
Mohamed Salah
The most crowned Champions League champion team has already qualified for the final after a historic “remontada” against the English club Manchester City, and then Salah wrote on his official Twitter account: We have a result that we must satisfy. In reference to the 2018 final.
He continued his menacing tone as he received the EWF Player of the Year award, saying: Yes, it’s time for revenge, they beat us up and it was a very sad day for all of us.
One day before the final, Salah spoke up saying: “It’s a rematch game after the one that happened in Kiev when I came out after 30 minutes, but I’m talking about rematch from a good perspective and not a bad one. Madrid remains Madrid, which is the best ever in the history of the tournament and he knows how to win, but I think if I had stayed on the pitch in 2018 we could have won.
Despite his promises, he failed to take his team to the podium after awarding the title to young Brazilian Vinicius Junior at Real Madrid with a goal that came in the second half.
Vinicius scored Real Madrid’s goal in the 2021 final
After losing the title for the second time, Salah posted a message through his social media accounts, stressing that he is ready to forgo all the prizes he won last season to repeat the Champions League final against Real Madrid.
He also told France Football that a loss to Real Madrid would affect his chances of winning the Ballon d’Or.
In addition to revenge against the Spanish club, the Egyptian international will have the opportunity to respond to the sarcasm of Croatian Luka Modric, who provoked the Liverpool star after the Paris final, when Real Madrid player Rodrygo revealed: After the match and earlier in the honorary corridor, Salah was sad, Modric looked at him and said: Try again.
Salah and Modric in the last final
He continued: When one of the players provokes you, you only want to win thanks to him. In training, we used to say: “Come on, Salah, come on, Salah”. And he concluded: in our mind, we really wanted to make fun of him.
Salah played 6 games against Real Madrid, lost 5 games, drew one and scored only one goal.
The streak of negative results for Al-Masry began against the Spanish capital’s team in the Europa Champions League, when Salah was a player in the ranks of Roma, as his Italian team dropped out of the round of 16 in 2015- 2016 season, where Roma loses 2-0 in the first leg and the same defeat is repeated in the return leg.
Salah in front of Ramos in the Roma-Real Madrid match
The confrontation between Salah and Real Madrid is renewed, when Liverpool were in the final in Kyiv 2018, crowned by the Spanish team after winning 3-1, a game that the Egyptian champion will not forget, injured in the 31st minute after a strong intervention by the defender Sergio Ramos, and Salah came out crying He injured his shoulder joint ligaments.
Salah cries after his exit from the final in Kiev
The Liverpool star waited until the 2020-2021 season to score against Real Madrid, when the two teams met in the quarter-finals, when Salah scored a goal in the match won by Real Madrid with three goals to one, before that the return match ended in a goalless draw, to snatch the Spanish team from qualifying for the semifinals. .
Benzema and Salah in the 2020 semifinals
Last year’s final was the Egyptian star’s sixth match against the team he had always lost and, after his threats and provocations, he tasted the fifth defeat and lost the European title to Real Madrid for the second time.
