Liverpool's exhaustion: Mané is not enough in another Salah tragedy

• Chronicle Real Madrid declares its eternal love for the Champions League in Paris for the fourteenth time

• Protagonist Carlo Ancelotti, from Mersey to Europe's Olympus in the year of the impossible: "He goes with the truth ahead"

Liverpool couldn't take it anymore in Paris, exhausted, broken, powerless against a giant under the sticks.

He fell with honors before his great nemesis and

added one more lost final, the eleventh, of 19 disputed.

Little can be reproached for this team, which tried until exhaustion, with all the resources at its disposal.

Another tragic note for

, who

got the best stop out of him.

And an injustice for

, author of a huge game.

After dominating the first half hour, the reds dissolved in the last half.

Just when most was expected of them.

That was where his ability to recompose himself physically and mentally was to be measured.

That last stretch presumably favored the rival, fresher in the legs in the previous weeks and capable of disputing those minutes of truth like someone who throws a pachanga.

Falling back, like so many times throughout the year, Madrid would require an extra quality point.

To do this, Klopp almost immediately gave himself up to

, a winger who had lost the spell a few months ago.

And he retired

, who played his 57th game of the season, in four competitions, a record in the five major leagues.

The captain was able to bid farewell with the honor of becoming the first Englishman to wear the armband in three Champions League finals.

Also to L

, held by

, author of a huge game.

The Colombian had been averaging more than four shots on goal in the Premier, but his already traditional embrace with Klopp had a bitter taste this time.

appeared

, who had been sowing more than doubts, to fill the whole of Paris with astonishment with a shot from outside.

The antithesis to

's canon .

He did not return to enjoy another like Liverpool.

And

paraded disconsolate.

Mane's effort

Klopp made a virtue of necessity with Mané, relocated for months as a false nine.

During the semifinal against City,

revealed that gap, behind

and in front of the central defenders.

Precisely where the Senegalese moved best.

Outside the radar, when they wanted to catch him, he was already on the other side.

He looked as relaxed as he had noticed in the previous one.

Mané came out to enjoy himself, although he worked tirelessly in the first line of pressure, forcing Courtois' pitch.

His ease in feinting in the gap of a tile

crazy .

And the shot to the post, in the middle of the first half, was hardly the most exquisite detail of a display of strength.

Just before

decreed the break, Klopp had no choice but to thank him, from the technical area, for that last effort to harass the goalkeeper.

It was worth sacrificing for the common good and Liverpool had the competitive edge of someone who has won and lost finals.

His was, undeniably, the first half hour.

With the positional play of his midfield line and with the depth of Luis Díaz on the left.

At the Stade de France, that team dominated, which during the previous 12 games had reduced the possession of its rivals to sequences of just 6.8 seconds.

The future of the 'reds'

A notorious growth compared to 2018, pushing the rival towards his area and denying the connection between

and

.

At least, the Brazilian was looking for his opportunity against

.

A tiny crack in the red wall, whose only moment of weakness would come after the endless VAR review, when

seemed to emulate

in Kiev.

The restart did not smile at Salah either, desperate at times in front of

and

, who denied their influence.

Liverpool only had Mané left.

Let's see how those 50 million in which the hypothetical transfer of him to Bayern had been encrypted are now understood.

And let's see how the striker calms things down at The Kop, after so many weeks postponing his renewal.

As much as Klopp did not care about these intentional rumours, the great task of the new sports management goes through a new contract, beyond 2023.

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