Former Liverpool goalkeeper Loris Karius will have the opportunity to lay to rest the ghost of the 2018 Champions League final after he was selected to start for Newcastle in the Carabao Cup final today.
The 29-year-old German has spent most of the past four and a half years in the football wilderness after he was largely criticised for two calamitous errors that handed Real Madrid the European Cup in Kiev, effectively ending his Anfield career.
Karius is on a short-term contract with Newcastle and just over a week ago, could not have imagined that he would be about to appear in a major Wembley final today. But a bizarre twist of fate has handed him the opportunity.
