Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp 'really happy' fans exonerated for Champions League chaos

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Watch: Fans shared videos showing capsicum spray being deployed and children crying successful Paris

Liverpool brag Jurgen Klopp says it is "super important" that the club's fans person been exonerated for the chaotic scenes earlier past year's Champions League last against Real Madrid.

Fans were penned successful and sprayed with teardrop state extracurricular Paris' Stade de France arsenic kick-off was delayed by 36 minutes.

An autarkic study said Uefa bears "primary responsibility" and it was "remarkable no-one mislaid their life".

"It feels conscionable close that it's present official," said Klopp.

"Everybody knows it present due to the fact that determination were truthful galore things said aft the game, which we knew were wrong.

"It was conscionable lies. So, I'm truly blessed that it's yet said officially."

Uefa and French authorities initially blamed ticketless fans for the concern but the study stated that determination was "no evidence" to enactment the "reprehensible" claims.

For galore Liverpool fans, the incidental and consequent attempted attribution of blasted connected supporters evoked achy memories of the Hillsborough disaster.

Ninety-seven Liverpool supporters died arsenic a effect of the April 1989 catastrophe astatine Sheffield Wednesday's stadium, wherever fans were crushed due to the fact that of overcrowding successful the Leppings Lane extremity astatine an FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest.

The study into events successful Paris past twelvemonth said the corporate enactment of Liverpool supporters was "probably instrumental" successful preventing "more superior injuries and deaths" extracurricular the stadium.

Liverpool privation Uefa to "fully and transparently" fulfil 21 recommendations made successful the study to forestall akin incidents, portion Klopp praised Liverpool fans for however they dealt with events successful the French capital.

"Thank you. Staying calm successful a concern wherever cipher truly tin enactment calm, teardrop state successful your eyes, unit from up front, from the side, from behind, being locked successful betwixt thousands of radical and not pushing similar crazy, staying calm, is simply a monolithic happening to bash and an highly hard happening to do," said the Reds boss.

"And past getting retired of it and getting blamed for that, it's horrible. It's truly horrible.

"When you perceive it archetypal time, you cannot judge it, that it each happened, but it did.

"So, yes, there's a batch to amended and I anticipation everybody learned from it."

Uefa stripped Russia from staging the Champions League last successful St Petersburg due to the fact that of the country's penetration of Ukraine and moved Europe's showpiece crippled to the Stade de France successful February 2022.

Liverpool were beaten 1-0 by Real Madrid but, speaking to LBC, Paris lawman politician Pierre Rabadan said the organisation of the last was "done excessively quickly".

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