The morning after the final was one of the best days in my life, to be honest.
My family was in, and we were sitting in the living room,
and Ulla made some macaroni with tomato sauce
and then we watched everything we could get from the final.
I think it took hours.
I realised only when I watched it
that Alberto Moreno jumped on my back when we scored the second goal.
Slightly different to you...
I was there on the pitch, yeah.
Because we just wanted to make the sub, eh?
So I was on the pitch and I saw you being really calm,
running to the gaffer like, "But we still have to make the sub, no?"
"Yeah, of course, let's do it!"
I said a year before, when we lost the final,
I said I couldn't feel better when the cup would stand next to me.
I didn't know that's a lie - really.
Because it felt much better this summer, that's the truth.
Come on, let's watch this.
What a goal - and a celebration.
But the whole game was brilliant...
Did you see how he asked for the ball?
He was like...
That's the players who make the decisive actions, no?
It was a second phase, no? After the corner.
Yeah, it's a similar goal to the 2-0 in the final.
Div, because the centre-halves there..
In the final Joel passed the ball out there,
in this game I think Virg passed the ball to Bobby
and everybody's really waiting for it.
Our second phase after set-pieces was incredible the whole season.
Yeah, everybody speaks about our set-pieces
but second phase of the set-pieces,
that was really a lot of decisive...
The Origi goal, Everton, was second phase.
First miss...
Wolverhampton, Virg's goal was second phase.
So we had a few important ones.
Stay believing.
So come on...
I think the next one is here.
STEVE HUNTER: Fabinho won the first header - what a save by Alisson Becker!
Steve!
We would say...importante!
He is all in.
It's so important that he stays on his feet as well.
Each situation was so important,
this is unbelievable again,
the Napoli game was the outstanding game, it was 1-0,
we left it open that they could have this chance, but...
By the way you could show the game we played there.
Wow!
I think it was the worst game of the whole season, if I'm right,
but it helped a lot, that game.
Our offensive line defending how we did it in that game
was the example for the whole season how we shouldn't do it.
This helped massively!
Wow!
I'm not sure if it's already decided, the goal of the year or something like that,
I'm not sure if it's in the choices, but that's unbelievable.
How he makes that first touch, that's unreal.
What a goal!
Oh, my God.
With Sadio you never know, he's so unpredictable, eh?
Yeah, to himself as well.
That's the good thing, hopefully!
Intuition.
Oh, oh...
Yeah, and what's great is that Virg gets an assist, for that.
It's just a shoot...
- Ah, it was a good ball - Come on...
♫ Si senor
♫ Give the ball to Bobby and he will score
♫ There's something that the Kop wants you to know
♫ Best in the world is Bobby Firmino... ♫
The boys really love that, eh?
Nobody's jealous of anyone else for having a song, but this is unbelievable.
The words to the Virgil song, the Bobby song, Gini...
has a proper song, it's unbelievable.
Oh, that's just, the ultimate respect what you can get,
you cannot really forget it. I saw the Boss night,
did you see the Boss night in Madrid?
Yeah.
When Jamie Webster was going completely mad!
Like, hitting... Wow.
- A lot of emotion. - Obviously pretty passionate.
That was unbelievable, it's so important to see these things.
It's getting better and better as well, no?
These Boss nights, and it's like how the team develops,
they are, every time it looks like...
But the general atmosphere is better as well,
so even on a Sunday, early kick-off,
atmosphere is much better.
Everybody feels the importance of his own voice,
that's just completely different to the beginning, especially.
In the dressing room as well, it's about three things -
it's about one, the manager, two, the fans, and three, the group of players.
These three together, if they are like this then success will follow.
Oh! Cheeky.
Oh, sorry!
Unbelievable. And it's so difficult to finish it off,
it's so unbelievably...
Yeah, because he's surprised as well.
He's free because he was marking Div, I think that's the reason.
OK, that's not that important, but he was free!
Love it.
And I say it was not to defend.
I say it could not be defended, in that specific situation.
Football is always like this, if somebody scores,
somebody makes a mistake.
Yeah, there are a couple of mistakes, but in that moment in the game,
Barca couldn't expect that we would have
such a quick set-piece, but it makes it even more valuable.
Unbelievable, that goal, I will never forget.
Still Alexander-Arnold.
Corner, well done, son.
Done really well, Trent.
I love it.
'Corner taken quickly - Origi!'
He's crying.
Everybody in this club is a supporter,
I love that fact, it's really great.
We really... We do it for each other.
What a guy, eh?
You can't have a better...
Also for the Academy, a guy who speaks like this, uh?
He knows every single player.
No atmosphere... nobody there!
He is even more positive than you.
I hear him so often when I watch the Academy games, it feels familiar.
Precisely like a friend.
♫ Though your dreams be tossed and blown... ♫
I remember I was shouting, "Only us! Only us!"
"Only we!"
That's why...
♫ Walk on, with hope in your heart... ♫
What a moment.
You remember the West Brom game years ago,
when we went there and did the little celebration?
And everyone looked at me like I'm a bit mad,
and I had no clue that you don't do it in England.
It was just an incredible moment,
it was an incredible moment and something like this...
I don't think can happen again.
Yes, we can win against Barcelona,
Barcelona will probably lose a game,
but without Bobby and Mo, without Robbo in the second half...
I loved the first whistle, when they pass the ball back...
Yeah, we chased them over the whole pitch.
From everywhere. I say many times - the five minutes after the game
is more important than the five days leading up to a game,
and what we said when we came out of Camp Nou,
when we came back in the dressing room, those five minutes, for me, were decisive.
The only team who it was possible to change this around...are you guys.
In world football.
And we had a big discussion in the morning, how do we call,
we have to overachieve, we have to...
Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a German saying...
HE SPEAKS GERMAN
One translation is 'to crow over yourself'.
I asked the boys in the meeting if they can imagine his best game ever,
and then before the game I went to Div and asked him,
"Do you know which your best game was?"
"Of course - Dortmund away."
I said, "Right, so that's exactly how you have to play."
Just to make sure that everybody can play like this.
If you all play with your best game then of course...
Before the final the gaffer said, "I used that one last week.
"I can't use it again!"
But so proud of the way we did it, because we did it in our way,
with so much... guts.
♫ He's our centre-half
♫ He's our No. 4... ♫
That's unbelievable!
I say in my next life I will be a supporter, eh?
We can never have something like this, that's a big shadow on our lives.
Look here, eh.
He plays like us.
Going mad. Absolutely, that's counter-press singing.
We have to ask him, I think he cried when he came off-stage.
Yeah, I know it.
We celebrated John Achterberg birthday at Pete's house,
Pete Krawietz's house, with kids and everything, barbecue.
And at one moment I said, "Come on, I'm alone at home in the moment,
"let's go over to my house, kitchen party."
And then there we realised again, we had our our party...
First time that we are...
We had a party until Matt McCann's iPhone broke!
Let me say like this, yeah.
It switched off, and the big problem was then we had Dutch music on,
John Achterberg took over my Sonos,
and then it was like, "What the heck?"
It was an absolutely brilliant night.
I never thought that five guys could have... Exactly like that.
Yeah, jumping around.
It was, for me, really important,
because it felt like, "OK, now it's..."
Now it's done!
Now it's done. Because we never had that moment, like...
I think I was the only one in the stadium who didn't think, "That's it."
I couldn't think it, I didn't allow myself to think it.
He only played because in training he was...
He was so often the best man and decisive and stuff like that,
that's why he then played in these situations.
After the Barcelona game the most happy person on the planet...
was Bobby Firmino.
Div respected completely that Bobby will start,
really respected it completely that he will not start in the final,
not a second where he's thinking, "I don't start?"
It was unbelievable. How the team dealt with all these situations was incredible.
JÜRGEN: Sadio?
When was that? It must be before the game, it's a warm-up shirt!
- It can't be. - It's a warm-up shirt!
- You don't... - Is he?
Nobody knows! We have to ask him when that was.
COMMENTATOR: Well, there it is, it's Liverpool...
That's the most Bobby Firmino thing ever.
No words, to be honest.
He's a good example, how much the boys wanted it,
that's a good example.
When you see his face when he's raising the cup, for me it's unbelievable.
I don't know, I was really afraid!
He's like, shouting...
It was pure emotion.
Liverpool are the champions of Europe for the sixth time.
Of course I felt for him, of course.
I'm the person in the world who was most often in that situation.
Exactly in his situation.
Class.
He's a really good guy, have to say that.
And they would have deserved it, come on, everybody knows that.
If you win something with that club, it's different.
It's different. With this club, it's different.
I'm not sure, last year we came to the final
and we had to play the qualifier, that was one thing,
It was brilliant going to the final.
This year going to the final with our group stage,
how we played in the group,
we came through on one wheel.
In this game, yes, our defending performance was here.
Offensively... But we couldn't really play much more football,
because our centre-halves were pretty early with their long balls.
"No football!" Boom. And that's difficult then,
but you have to, and a couple of years back
we would have been nervous outside - "We can't do it like this" -
but outside we were completely calm.
The boys at half-time, we didn't tell them, "Do this, do that!"
Telling them what was all wrong.
It was, "All good so far, so let's carry on."
Of course we wanted to play a bit better football,
but it's not about playing then, it's about doing the right things,
and we were always compact.
We were always compact when they had the ball.
But good saves from Ali, he needed to make really good saves,
but not...impossible saves, let me say it like this.
By the way, what a guy he is. What a guy!
Oh! Yeah.
I'm neither on Twitter or any other things, I can't see these things,
so when they sent me that, I had to open a Twitter account only to watch it!
"I cannot open it."
It's unbelievable. This club is so big.
Every culture in its own way, still the same, huh?
You cannot, you cannot imagine,
you can't really understand how big the club is.
You only see it in these moments.
I would say you expect something like this in South America,
with River Plate, Boca Juniors if they win something.
But in the middle of Europe, in the northwest of England, yeah,
that passion is just exceptional.
We celebrate now!
Here we go.
It's exactly where our families were, by the way.
On the other side, yeah.
Ulla on the bin!
We thought when we came to the corner that that was it.
The parade. because it was already like...
And then we turn...
And then it starts.
"What?!"
Ali... We play 100 per cent and we party 100 per cent!
He was unstoppable.
People thought probably that I was drunk.
I had three beers the whole day,
I was not at all drunk, and not one for one second the whole day.
I couldn't drink even, it was just, you felt constantly like...
It was too much, it was really too much.
The whole thing. And eye contact...wow.
That's too much.
You really need a few days to settle down.
That parade. For me, I don't know how you felt, but to deal with it,
it was quite...
It was overwhelming. Intense.
It was pretty special.
Pretty, pretty special.
Yeah, not bad!
Yeah - 'to be continued'.
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