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Published 12:20 28 Jul 2018 BST
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"Franz Beckenbaeur called me, that's exactly how it was, and he started with, 'Your goalkeeper had concussion'. "I said, 'What?' Beckenbaeur said 'I've come from Dr Hans Muller-Wohlfahrt [in Boston] and he said he knew immediately in the situation that he had concussion when Ramos hit him'. "And then it came back to me because in the game, from my position, without having replays, you see the knock and then I see the reaction of Loris, but then you look already somewhere else. Then I think, 'Stop, I have to watch it back'. "How can we imagine that a player, who didn't show any signs, not in that game, not before that game, that he will do these things, that it's not influenced by the knock?"Klopp was just as rocked by the news, and questioned it until he went back and reviewed the footage. Aside from the goals he conceded to Karim Benzema and Gareth Bale [the long-range effort], Karius had two outbursts during the second half - one with a teammate and the other with a match official - that are out of character. Something was off in Kiev, that night, but, as Conan Doherty has pointed out, it's not exactly as if the German was flawless coming into the final.
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