Exclusive: Ibrahima Konate admits 'trouble sleeping' after 2022 World Cup and Champions League final heartbreaks

Liverpool and France defender Ibrahima Konate has admitted he «had trouble sleeping» after two devastating final defeats in 2022. However, he has backed himself to make up for it in the future. Konate was on the losing side as the Reds were beaten in the Champions League final by Real Madrid before a dramatic penalty shootout loss with Les Bleus in the World Cup final in Qatar.

Ad Speaking exclusively to Eurosport France, the 23-year-old admitted it «hurts» to have gone through the setbacks, but has no regrets about his individual performances in either game and backs himself to come back stronger in future. Euro QualifyingRonaldo makes men's international history with record 197th cap36 MINUTES AGO “Honestly, after those two matches, I had trouble sleeping the days after,” Konate revealed ahead of his country's Euro 2024 qualifier against Netherlands. “It hurts when I think about it.

“But I tell myself today that I will do everything I can to win them one day. «When I have won them, the story will be very nice to tell at the end, whether it's to you, the journalists, or to my future children. “I will tell them that, ‘yes, I lost two important matches but I managed to win them afterward’.

The story will be even better.” Exclusive: Konate – Van Dijk ‘on a different planet’, season has been ‘complicated ‘Now I’m a better man’ — Ronaldo on Man Utd exit Konate started for Liverpool at the Stade de France as Vinicius Jr settled things in favour of the Spanish giants in a cagey affair last June. The match against Argentina in Lusail in December was an entirely different beast as France battled from 2-0 down to force extra time and again to send the match to penalties when they finally came a cropper. However, the