What Divock Origi did in the first match of Jurgen Klopp in Liverpool who came full circle in the final of the Champions League

Liverpool won its sixth European title with a 2-0 win over Tottenham Hotspur in Madrid on Saturday night. In fact, the new European champions did not perform particularly well, but all that matters in a final is to bring the cup back home.

This was reminiscent of recent clashes between Liverpool and the Spurs. One of the teams scored early, which allowed the other team to dominate possession of the ball, but struggled to create opportunities to score remarkable goals.

In five of the six meetings leading up to the Champions League final, a team – four times in Liverpool and once in Tottenham – led no later than 16 minutes to win four and draw.

But the final was an extreme version of this situation, with a penalty awarded to the Reds after just 22 seconds and the ball in the back of the nets within two minutes. Kopites might have preferred James Milner to be there to start the shoot, but since he missed his first goal for the club, Mohamed Salah has now scored his last six games in a row.

The match went on in a disappointing manner, as both teams struggled to pull together to stagger their attacks. Even if they did not go so far as to park the bus, Liverpool was certainly happy to allow Tottenham to have the ball and challenge them to break through their impressive rearguard.

The Spurs made more than twice as many pbades as the Reds, accumulating 65% of possession. However, to a large extent, it was in safe areas from Liverpool's point of view that it did not matter.

The seven best combinations for most pbades between two players all belonged to Tottenham, but six of them included a couple from the trio composed of Jan Vertonghen, Toby Alderweireld and Hugo Lloris.

Thus, while Liverpool's most common combinations saw Andy Robertson and Sadio Mane trying to score something on the left wing, Tottenham knocked him to the back.

10% of the Spurs' successful pbades have been returned to their goalkeeper. If you consider that the average Premier League rate this season was 3.8%, you see that Tottenham had the ball, but he often had no place to go with it.

The number of pbades completed in the last third is much greater for the outcome of a match. The Spurs may have been successful with 233 more pbades than Liverpool on the field, but only 9 in the last third, and have completed three less than the Reds in the opposing area.

By far, the most important pbad of the seven that Liverpool had completed in Tottenham's penalty area was Joel Matip's Divock Origi to score the second goal. To sum up Liverpool's difficulties in creating opportunities tonight, consider that Cameroon's center-back was the only red player to offer more than one opportunity to a team-mate.

At the end of the match, Matip had the first decisive pbad of his career in Liverpool, during his appearance in 1998 for the club. He followed the example of Dejan Lovren, who collected one of his three badists for the Reds in the Champions League final in Kiev last season.

Origi has been the man of great opportunity throughout his career in Liverpool, despite limited appearances. His five European goals consist of a home goal against Dortmund, a brace against Barcelona, ​​and now a strike in the biggest match of all. The late goals of the Belgian against Everton and Newcastle this season will probably not be forgotten any time soon.

The goal of Origio in Madrid also meant that he had finished 2018/19 by scoring or badisting one every 84 minutes, which represents the best rate of all club players. He may have had only 673 minutes on the field this season, but he usually made them count.

Given the offensive talent presented at the beginning of the match, it could be surprising that Origi scored the only goal of the open match. Before the kickoff, Liverpool supporters seemed delighted that a badly cooked Harry, Harry Kane, was included in the Spurs list, but Roberto Firmino was in the same state and unable to influence him. debates in the same way.

Kane and Firmino each created only one chance as Tottenham's talisman only fired one shot while Liverpool's number nine failed to win. Even at that time, the two shots in which Kane was directly involved occurred after Origi gave Liverpool the lead in two goals, and it was unlikely to affect the outcome.

And while Kane's shot was framed, Alison Becker was more than equal, as he did with Tottenham's eight attempts that put him to the test. The Brazilian became the first goalkeeper to keep the rug in a final of the Champions League since compatriot Júlio César for Inter Milan in 2010, and the first to make eight saves in the European centerpiece for 15 years.

Although Klopp's era in Liverpool is far from over, his four-year career has completely closed the loop on Saturday night.

Divock Origi had the first great chance of the German post, having been directed against the bar after 10 minutes on White Hart Lane in the first match of Klopp.

Who would ever have thought then that Origi would have the last shot of the Reds in the 2018/19 Champions League final and score a goal with him to settle the game?

Whether planned or not, he crowned a fabulous campaign for Liverpool, and this one ended rightly with the most important title.