Mo Salah: Dejan Lovren got revenge on Sergio Ramos for Liverpool star in 2018

Mohamed Salah is hungry for revenge against Real Madrid.

The Liverpool star made it crystal-clear after winning the FWA Footballer of the Year award that he was pumped up by the prospect of doing battle with Los Blancos once again in a Champions League final.

According to the Liverpool Echo, Salah said when asked if Liverpool wanted revenge: “Yeah. It’s revenge time. They beat us in the final last time. It was a very sad day for all of us, so yeah.”

Salah’s hunger for revenge is twofold because not only did Real exact defeat on the Reds during the 2018 final, but the Egyptian himself was forced off in the first-half after a challenge from Sergio Ramos.

And given the Real legend’s unabashed love for the dark arts of football, speculation was rife that he had deliberately injured Salah – who scored 44 goals that year – to take him out of the game.

Make of that what you will, but the moral of the story is that Liverpool fans grew quite the dislike for Ramos in light of him removing their star player from the big game in Kyiv.

And although Salah won’t be able to exact revenge on Ramos himself this summer due to his Paris Saint-Germain transfer, the stage is still set for him to make it second time lucky against Los Blancos.

Besides, in one respect, Salah needn’t worry about avenging Ramos’ controversial tackle because there’s good reason to think that Dejan Lovren did the job for him four years ago.

That’s because the former Liverpool defender – who is good friends with Salah – threw an elbow at Ramos during Croatia’s 3-2 UEFA Nation’s League win over Spain in 2018.

Lovren subsequently received a one-match ban for his actions and according to Goal, even wrote on Instagram after the game: “I elbowed him good. Haha! 3-2! Go