'Who wouldn’t?' - Toni Kroos makes Jurgen Klopp and Liverpool admission ahead of Champions League final

Liverpool could well be the best team in Europe currently but Real Madrid can beat them in tomorrow's Champions League final, according to Toni Kroos.

The Los Blancos midfielder is hoping to join an elite band of footballers to have won five Champions League winners medal in their careers, alongside the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Paulo Maldini, but is well aware that the Jurgen Klopp-guided team he will face in Paris on Saturday has moved up a level from the one he faced in Kiev four years ago, when Madrid took the trophy with a 3-1 win.

In a video call interview with former Germany and Arsenal defender Par Mertesacker, Kroos said: " I think Liverpool is even stronger than it was in 2018. I think they kept their best players and some really good ones have been added again. They have Thiago in midfield who stands back shaping play. Overall it is going very, very well for them. I think over the entire season, maybe even the best team in Europe.

"But it’s only one game and we have showed a couple of times what we can do. We also got through last year against them in the knockout round in the quarterfinals. I can see that very clearly [it is] 50/50."

Madrid hold the all-time record for the most European Cup/Champions League triumphs with 13 titles, while Liverpool are a distant third on six. But while the Reds only lost one match on route to the Paris final and won every single one of their group stage matches, the Spanish champions had to come from behind in knockout ties three times against Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea and most dramatically of course, Manchester City, before booking their trip to the French capital. Kroos admits they are qualities that his side may need against the Reds.

He said: “If you see how