Liverpool cannot say they didn’t know what was coming.
“We know that when Real Madrid play in finals they win them, and now I’m on the right side of that,” said Thibaut Courtois, speaking within the bowels of the cavernous Stade de France on Friday evening.
A little over 24 hours later, the goalkeeper became the prime reason Liverpool are now not celebrating a trophy treble and being named champions of Europe for a seventh time.
