When Liverpool beat Chelsea on penalties to win the FA Cup earlier this month, Kostas Tsimikas was the unlikely match-winner for the Reds as the Greek stepped up to score the winning spot-kick after Alisson had saved from Mason Mount.
Having clinched a domestic double, you’d back the left-back to step up again if called upon in Paris when Jurgen Klopp’s side seek revenge against Real Madrid in the Champions League final.
Of course Tsimikas isn’t the only unlikely final match-winner for Liverpool, with his Wembley heroics ensuring he was following in the footsteps of one famous former Red in particular. And given a European Cup final clash with Real Madrid is looming in Paris, evoking memories of their first final meeting in the tournament in the same city back in 1981, it seems rather fitting that a left-back netted the winner in their most recent final on the eve of their latest showdown with the La Liga giants.
