LONDON - Jurgen Klopp admitted that Liverpool’s hope of winning the Champions League this season was all but over after crashing to a 5-2 home defeat by Real Madrid in the first leg of their last-16 tie on Tuesday. Instead, their frailties were brutally exposed by Real despite the Spaniards conceding twice inside the first 15 minutes. An independent investigation into the chaotic scenes surrounding the Champions League final in Paris last May has laid the blame clearly at Uefa’s door for endangering the safety of supporters. “The second goal was slapstick. Klopp has made Champions League football the norm again at Anfield, but there is a real risk that six successive seasons in the competition comes to an end when this term concludes.
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