Soccer Football - Champions League - Liverpool arrive back in Liverpool - Liverpool, Britain - June 2, 2019 Liverpool's Jordan Henderson and manager Juergen Klopp emerge from an aeroplane with the trophy as they arrive back in Liverpool after winning the Champions League Final Action Images via Reuters/Craig Brough
MADRID (Reuters) - Liverpool's sixth European Cup win, celebrated on the streets of Merseyside on Sunday, was a triumph of a multinational squad, expertly welded into a winning machine by German manager Juergen Klopp.
Yet in the surprisingly scrappy contest, won 2-0 against Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday, it was the club's English captain Jordan Henderson and his often under-valued qualities which came to the fore.
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