UCL Final : REAL MADRID 3 Liverpool 1

Nightmare in Kiev! Heartbreak for Liverpool as Real Madrid win Champions League final 3-1 after blundering goalkeeper Loris Karius' two embarrassing errors and Gareth Bale's spectacular overhead kick

• Liverpool fans faced travel chaos today and last night after 30,000 of them attempted to return home
• They were left heartbroken after two goalkeeping blunders cost them the Champions League final
• At Kiev's Boryspil International Airport dejected Liverpool fans were seen sleeping on floors and benches
• Direct flights from Kiev to Liverpool were fully booked up until late next week as fans scrabbled to return 
• Liverpool fans were slammed for directing a torrent of abuse including death threats at their goalkeeper

Liverpool's Mo Salah was substituted after 30 minutes following a strong challenge by Real Madrid's Sergio Ramos

 

Madrid substitute Gareth Bale scored a spectacular overhead kick to restore Real's lead minutes after joining the game

Liverpool's Loris Karius gifted Real Madrid two goals in the Champions League final in Kiev which finished 3-1

'I tried to catch it, maybe I should have done it safer and just put it out of play instead of trying to catch it.

'I judged it wrong and it went in.'

While acknowledging the mistakes, Klopp said he had great sympathy for the keeper he signed from his former club Mainz.

'What can I say? Loris knows it, everybody knows it. It's a shame in a game like this and after a season like this. I really feel for him; he's a fantastic boy,' Klopp said.  

Former Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard, a Champions League winner with the club in 2005, told BT Sport that Karius had lost his cool for the first goal.

'We spoke about experience before the game, know-how on the big stage and the Madrid players being more switched on. The first goal is a keeper in a rush,' he said.

Karius had to be consoled by Liverpool's goalkeeping coach John Achterberg and Madrid's Gareth Bale after the final whistle

This girl gathers her thoughts outside the stadium in Kiev having witnessed Liverpool's 3-1 defeat to Real Madrid 

Karius did eventually make his way over to the stands where he apologised to fans who had made the 1,500-mile journey to Kiev. At last Jurgen Klopp put his arm around the keeper who then disappeared into the tunnel.