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4th May 2018
08:00am BST

The Champions League final will be uncharted territory for this Liverpool side. They are a relatively young, inexperienced team and while that does add to their explosive unpredictability, there is still no reason for them to go public with their confidence.
The Merseysiders can for all the world believe that they are capable of beating Real Madrid in the Ukraine. Let's not forget, these boys are vulnerable at the back as well and they'll have their hands full with the sharpest front three in world football, but this confidence should be kept under wraps in Melwood and within the four white walls of the dressing room.
This should be a weapon for the Reds' that they can pull out and stun Madrid with when it matters. Games will not be won in Press Conferences and they probably won't be lost either, but Dejan Lovren did his best to test the boundaries of that on Thursday evening.
Liverpool's greatest facet going into this game is that they will be the ones going in under the radar.
Not on Dejan Lovren's watch.
“They are quite confident,” he said of Real Madrid to the Liverpool Echo on Thursday. “But we don’t care about that, we are focused on our job. Why should we fear them? They should fear us," added the Croatian defender.Oh Dejan why don't you just get Zidane some blu-tack to help him hang pride of place in the Madrid changing rooms as well? Where Liverpool should be shoving all the limelight away down the throats of their opponents, they're giving them a nice little reprieve now. https://twitter.com/NateGuildea/status/992158421070774273 While there is no doubting that the Pool will be confident in their own skin, nobody outside of their camp needs to know about that. They should be the ones over-playing this underdog status, they should be the ones convincing Madrid that all they have to do is turn up. And let's not forget, This is the same Lovren who was under fire up until a few weeks ago when his constant mistakes were the ones that were keeping his side down, the same Lovren who referred to Harry Kane as 'Mr. Touch' on Instagram recently. The trick is not to get too far ahead of yourself, not to get too big for your boots because there will come a time when you'll be caught out.
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