Klopp: Reliving Champions League final loss was torture

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp admits watching back May's Champions League final defeat to Real Madrid for the first time was "torture".

There was chaos before the showpiece, with fans outside the Stade de France trapped in serious congestion and tear-gassed by police. Thousands missed the delayed kick-off of a game Klopp's team lost 1-0.

The atmosphere inside the stadium suffered as a result and Klopp found reviewing the footage painful, although he believes his team did everything to win the game.

He said: "I didn't watch it back until this weekend. The thing I realised immediately was now I know why I didn't watch it back - but I had to.

"It was proper torture because we played a good game and could have won and that's the decisive word - could - but didn't because they scored and we didn't. That's the decisive reason.

"I watched the game back, knowing exactly what we will do and we had to win this game.

"We didn't. The one reason was we didn't score and we conceded but apart from that we should have won the game.

"What looked like held us back a little was it was a final. In the little moments we were not adventurous enough, we were super-protected because of the possible counter-attack threat.

"Analysing it is super-easy. It was a little bit of feeling that we needed an extra spark and could have made it."

Defeat extended Liverpool's winless run against the 14-time European champions to six matches (five defeats, one draw), with Klopp's record as Reds boss reading four defeats - including two finals - and a draw.

Liverpool have lost to Real more times (five) than they have to any other team in European competition and the Spanish club's coach Carlo Ancelotti has lost only five of his 17 encounters with them, winning nine. His