Jurgen Klopp: All football fans agree Sergio Ramos injuring Mohamed Salah was 'ruthless and brutal'

Ouch: Mohamed Salah was forced off less than half an hour into the Champions League final
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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp insists all football supporters, expect Real Madrid fans, think Sergio Ramos's foul on Mohamed Salah was "ruthless and brutal".

After a record-breaking first season at Liverpool, which saw him score 44 goals in all competitions, Salah was forced off inside the opening 30 minutes of the Champions League final after clashing with Ramos.

Liverpool went on to lose the final 3-1 as Ramos went unpunished for the collision and Klopp feels the referee on the night, Milorad Mazic, should have done more.

"We are opening that bottle again?" Klopp asked in a news conference when the topic was raised.

"It is action-reaction-action-reaction and I don't like that but if you watch it back and you are not with Real Madrid then you think it is ruthless and brutal.

"I saw the ref taking charge of big games at the World Cup and nobody really thinks about that later. But in a situation like that somebody needs to judge it better.

"If VAR is coming then it is a situation where you have to look again. Not to give a red card but to look again and say: 'What is that?' It was ruthless."

Salah left the pitch in tears in Kiev with huge questions hanging over his participation at the World Cup in Russia.

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Liverpool goalkeeper Loris Karius, who it later emerged had suffered a concussion during the match, made couple of blunders to concede two goals against Madrid who won 3-1.

Karius clashed with Ramos early in the second half and was seen holding the side of his head after the collision, which came before he made the mistakes that led to the goals.

​Ramos later brushed off allegations that he had deliberately injured Salah, saying he was being unfairly painted as a pantomime villain.

"I'm not sure it is an experience we will have again – go there and put an elbow to the goalkeeper, put their goalscorer down like a wrestler in midfield and then you win the game. That was the story of the game," Klopp said.

"Ramos said a lot of things afterwards that I didn't like. As a person I didn't like the reactions of him. He was like: 'Whatever, what do they want? It's normal'.

"No, it is not normal. If you put all of the situations of Ramos together then you will see a lot of situations with Ramos ... It is like we, the world out there, accepts that you use each weapon to win the game. People probably expect that I am the same. I am not."

Additional reporting by Reuters.

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