The Endless Nightmare Of Loris Karius 

You never walk alone.. Karius:

Karius was the witness that you, in fact, walk alone

It was disgraceful that no Liverpool player or part of the management team went to him after the game to console him.

He actually played well in the Carabao Cup final. Lad's confidence was clearly shot to pieces after his Liverpool nightmare. Goalkeeper is the most thankless position in the team, with every mistake punishable.

Truly unbelievable what happened to Karius. It was an unfortunate error but death threats are absolutely not it. I really hope we see a redemption arc for Karius

This is legitimately the first time that I'm hearing he was concussed during the Final. Funny how most neglected to include that vital fact when they scapegoated Karius.

His is maybe the most hurtful case of a footballer I've ever seen. It was so sad watching him pologizing to his fans in tears after the final, and seeing he is unable to get over it, as it still haunts him in every match he plays. I hope he can overcome that nightmare once an for all

"Germanys 2010 world cup hero mario götze?" It was in 2014...

as a liverpool fan i feel ashamed that so many people still blame him, if we win as a team we also lose as a team

As a Newcastle fan the match against Arsenal was by far our worst this season, our defence was in shambles. I can say he played decently for the amount of pressure he was under, only making a mistake in the last goal where our hopes had already died.

bro played the entire game concussed and everyone threw him under the bus. That game destroyed his confidence.

The problem with GK position is that when GK makes a mistake it becomes a meme right away and 99% of cases reflects on the score sheet. Same with Karius, unluckily for him it happened twice in a biggest game in European football. Poor guy, wish him only the best

as a Liverpool fan this was a hard watch. but I do feel sorry for him and i hope he succeeds.

All I gotta say is one name: Robert Enke. Rest in Peace, Legend

"You'll never walk alone" except Karius

He'll always have my respect for getting on with it and not publicly going through the what if moments. Kudos to him - hope he looks back with a smile.

He was elbowed by his left eye it knocked his vision out, anyone who has been hit hard enough near the eye knows how hard it is to play with. Same thing happened to me in a hockey game but with a knee, it wipes out your vision on that side, gives you double vision, you are so vulnerable. I didn't realise someone was pressing me until i saw them in my right eye, same thing would've happened with karius and the benzema goal. Then add on the effects of concussion, double vision from the collision then explains the bale mishandle. If you are still ignorant, try getting hit hard enough near the eye to knock your vision out, and play a game with that, you cant.

“You’ll never walk alone… But you better not fuck up”

Karius is the only Liverpool player to walk alone! It was so sad what happened to him 😢. I am not a Liverpool fan but I felt for him

Crazy how If those 2 mistakes were made in any other normal game, we wouldnt even be talking abt this...

‘You’ll never walk alone’ seems very selective with Liverpool. I know his mistakes cost them the final but the man didn’t hide. He owned up even though it’s now clear there were other factors at play with his concussion. Taking that aside, your player, your teammate is inconsolable, win lose or draw, you go up to him and put an arm around him and give him the strength and encouragement to come away from this experience stronger. They just abandoned him.

They keep saying: you'll never walk alone. Yet they let Karius walk alone. That's why I feel Liverpool has toxic fan base and club culture. Treat that never walk alone stuff as a propaganda.

Hopefully he can get his career back on track at Newcastle. Man City legend Joe Hart went through this at Torino after his City exit but now seems settled at Celtic.

Dude just welcomed a child with one of the most beautiful women on earth. He’s living the dream.

It wasnt that game alone though. That was just the cherry on top. He made horrific errors before, during and after the CL final, then left for Besiktas and continued to be bad for them too. All the best to the guy, but he's out of his depth in top level football.

Yet another brilliant foul from Ramos that makes Real win a game, i like Real, but just letting Ramos continue his "playstyle" for years is a real shame everyone can tell that this guy is a real nightmare as a opponent, because he can make you ready for the hospital without getting a red card really impressive skill right there.

Terrible event that happened to Karius, i still feel bad for the guy

The big problem that actually haunts me about this situation as a Liverpool fan is, WHY did we keep Simon (useless) Mignolet for so long, 1yr after Klopp took over he finally got the message and went to Mainz to get Karius (we could have had Bernd Leno or Ter-Stegen!!!! who were both available at the time but never mind) Had Mignolet been ditched under the end of Rogers tenure and certainly early in Klopps, then we would never have heard of Lorius Karius . As it is, the bloke was clearly out of his depth in the first few weeks with Klopp saying 'He's not ready' He was NEVER ready because he was MILES off being a top keeper for a major club. Very unlucky but could have easily been avoided had Klopp listened when he arrived to the criticism Mignolet was already getting for poor performances. We only bought him on the strength that he had stopped a million shots for Sunderland on their way to relegation. WHY did we get rid of Reina, stupid decision.

The mistakes are hard to watch.

Just came from the thumbnail to wish Loris Karius God's peace and mental strength. I can only imagine what he has gone through.

Reminder that he got bullied by the fans that chant youll never walk alone of all people. Shows who they really are. not to mention they played against the best team of the last decade in that finale, they were the underdogs

If an outfield player makes a few mistakes they can get away with it. It's a different story for goalies. Loris is one player I felt particularly sorry for

Gotta feel bad for this guy, i wish him all the best

As a Newcastle supporter, I think he deserves to be given more chances especially with Pope being injured. I still don't like that Dubravka basically walked away when he realised he wasn't going to be the go-to number 1 anymore.

and he made just 1 appearance for Newcastle, now it's almost 2 seasons since he joined

He’s better as a bomber. Diletta leotta is more than a champions league bro

The 2023 Carabao Cup final was a 2-0 victory for Manchester United. Not 3-1!

I watched every single appearance he had for Liverpool, and he was never ever, ever at any point at a level of a good premier league keeper. If he were putting those performances in for West Ham, they'd have found someone else.

At least the guy scored the greatest goal of his life by getting Diletta Leotta... respect

Mistakes happen. It's sad no one lived up to the saying they walk past every home game.

I remember when Liverpool signed him. I watched clips and highlights and he seemed really impressive. But even before the disaster that was the final, he wasn't the same player that he was in Germany. You can chalk that up to being in a different league and whatnot but he always seemed so rooted, not the usual way he was prior to LFC.

In those highlights he looks like he loses concentration every time someone takes a shot, and some of those saves where he deflects it into the path of an opponent probably worked as he was coming up, but as the opposition got better he was punished for it. It might just have been the case of a young player being good enough to make it through, but not stay on top.

i was playing fifa 2017 carrier mode and he was one of the future best goalkeepers its sad to see him like this

I love Karius, and i'm happy he's with us at Newcastle

cant blame the dude no of us can act as if we collided with Sergio Ramos we would even be conscious

Cost of being a multimillionaire is you have to put up with criticism and get your feelings hurt sometimes… he’s still winning in life more than most people

4:31 I called it at the time. I saw the hit Ramos put on him during the game and said to my friend "he's concussed." Ramos also separated Sarah's shoulder in that game too. I don't blame Karius for the loss I blame Ramos and the refs

Not a Liverpool fan, but felt sorry for him that night. That said, that's also how life goes, unfortunately. We can't rewrite history, only pay its merciless price. There are gazillions of kids locked up in prisons for "a couple of mistakes", who are given no sympathy, and will never get as many chances again to redeem themselves. My heart goes out to all, Karius included, who wished that mistakes on one sorry night never happened. It will haunt them forever.

Oy, mister. Not only did you make a mistake in the video, but also in the description. Mario Goetze was the hero for Germany in 2014 after he scored in the final against Argentina in additional time. He debuted in the senior German team AFTER the 2010 World Cup.

Before champions league final.. his performances were sketchy as well. As highlighted in the reels. Semi final victory vs roma.. henderson gave karius a hearty reality check during the final whistle

I always think why people don't appreciate the fact that he is a ucl finalist, surviving the whole UCL tournament is not that easy, even if he may had some blunders in previous games as well, but that's not the whole picture.

He was never meant to be a footballplayer at this big stage. He couldnt handle it. It may have been that he was good enough but he couldnt handle the pressure. I watched almost every game he played for LFC and i think he had one game where he looked solid and not shaky and insecure.

It must have been really hard for him to see his former teammates at Liverpool winning the 2019 UCL one year after his mistakes in the final. I really hope he's ok.

I feel for him. **** happens in life, and he never deserved all those threats. I wish him the best of luck 🙏🏻

S’è portato a letto la Leotta, difficile per me definire la sua vita un incubo. Anche dopo quell’errore in finale

He says he was elbowed in the head by Ramos. I believe him. The 2018 UCL Final was stolen by thuggery. Ramos crippled Salah then concussed Karius. Bale’s overhead was so sublime it deserved to be the winner of a fairly-fought final. Instead it capped a robbery.

You never walk alone. Only when you win.

Turkish teams and not paying players, name a more iconic duo.

Sad. Good luck to him. Hope he bounced back

There are very few people in the world who can play goalie professionally. If you are towards the lower end of that small list, it's gonna be tough no matter what.

As per media reports Karius had a concussion due a head on collision with Ramos. That led to his errors. I, a madridista still feel bad for him.

The worst part is, if the ref had done his job in Kyiv, Ramos would have already been sitting under the shower and Karius likely wouldn't have suffered the concussion. Whether Liverpool would've gone on to win the game is hard to say, but it wouldn't have been blamed on Karius.

I hope Loris Karius will return!

The fact that he had a concussion...

Butter fingers!!! That was a shocker!!

Felt so bad for him that night, treachery

Hard not to feel bad for the guy at this point.

I feel really sorry for the guy, life can be so fucking hard, but we all are more than our mistakes, which are human

I think this is thanks to the internet. Back in the days if that mistake would have happened it would be memorable but not as much as it is now. The internet now creates memes and really puts a sign on people that they cant never take out of them. It’s been 6 years since this final and people still making fun of him. It’s crazy.

I don't think Karius was particularly good for Liverpool prior to the CL final. He was OK, but not the level of keeper you want for a club as ambitious as Liverpool. Both Alisson and Kelleher are miles better than Karius ever was. I am sorry for him that he had such a nightmare evening against Real Madrid, but the plan was even before the final to find an upgrade, a clear number 1 keeper.

Sergio Ramos hit two birds with one stone

Germany didn’t win 2010 World Cup. That was from 2014

Mario Gotze scored in 2014 WC final not 2010.

Thought I was watching ALEXANDER there 😂

I wonder if the ones who ridiculed him online are the same who posted sad songs for Enke ?

Ramos caused karius's concussion in that game and took out salah next time they met . Hatchet man a winner .

The only one to blame for the Kyiv final is Klopp. Mignolet is 3 times the keeper that Karius ever was, Klopp messed up hard with his German bias

I watched that game with my dad in Kyiv when liverpool lost I was crying my shit off

I wish bro the best and hope he proves all the doubters wrong 🤷‍♂️

I have seen clips of many great keepers make terrible mistakes. It seems nobody is immune. But that does not mean that some are not generally more reliable than others.

Correction, the night he started in goal for Real Madrid.

i'm not a Liverpool fan (i support Tottenham), but i hope to see Loris Karius thrive one day. GK can have longer careers than other positions, so Karius still has time left - as Karius is 30 years old currently in 2024.

Man, I signed him in may manager career and then immediately benched him forever. I had no idea but now I feel bad 😂

Loris Karius,Manchester Utd hero.

Professional goalkeepers must watch what’s happened to Karius and be terrified it could happen to them

I think mentality and emotional control / stoicism is vital for success in any field. Sadly, one hit took him out

Very sad story.

There are top footballers including Cristiano Ronaldo who miss season defining penalities but get over it and the mistakes are mostly forgotten a season or two later...But for Karius digital media ruined him by specifically not burying the ghost of past

If he subbed himself off, I genuinely don't think we would of bought Alison, or at least as fast as we did afterwards, he wasn't too bad until that moment

It is really sad if his downfall was almost all due to that concussion in the Madrid game. Really makes you wonder if those mistakes happen without that, I don’t think they do

Karius was a ticking timebomb. He had absolutely no business being a senior player at a club like Liverpool and was only no. 1 because Mignolet was also out of his depth and suffering a crisis in confidence. Karius was a poor goalkeeper at the top level, let in far more soft goals than expected in the 3 quarters of a season he had been no.1 to that point, without showing any real outstanding attributes to make up for it. He was all unshakeable ego, no focus and average talent. But he had this bravado which can sometimes trick managers into thinking they're worth investing in, whereas Mignolet seemed to be falling apart with stress and lack of self belief. Two bad options to start in goal in a CL final and Mignolet would have been just as likely to let Liverpool down and become a footballing punchline. They had Danny Ward on the books then as well, which just doesn't bear thinking about. The goalkeeper coaching and recruitment at Liverpool was clearly completely misguided at that time. Karius seems to have lost that bravado and ego now and accepted the narrative, trying to maximise what he can earn as a career backup. He had time on his side but the 2 subsequent loan spells at Besiktas and Union Berlin seem to have set back his chance for redemption a long way. At Besiktas he was 1st choice but was mostly awful for them, ending up a hate figure for the fans and used as a scapegoat by the management. At Union Berlin, a club the size he should have expected to start regularly for, he never really even got a look in. And where should he go from there? Down to 2. Bundesliga where he'd really have to knuckle down and shed his fantasies of generational greatness, hoping that if he can manage 2 or 3 solid seasons Mainz might take him back? Why do that when you can just earn £50k+ per week at Newcastle and rarely having to deal with the stress and reality check of actually having to play elite level football.

Liverpool showed their feral side, yet again, with this lad. YNWA.. what an empty platitude

He was elbowed by S.Ramos who went on and dislocated Salah's shoulder in that match, nothing Karius alone could fix as they were VARdrid'ed and none of the players or staff complained.

As a Manchester United fan I thought he was excellent against us in the final, he had to deal with 10 shots on target, it was the midfield and defense that let him down.

7:48 Great video, but a small correction, they lost 2-0, not 3-1.

I’ve only ever played American football, but I suffered a bad concussion during a game. Even after two a day practices for months I didn’t know which side to line up on the hall. I was a tight end and kept trying to line up as wide receiver and on defense. I even got into a fight in the sidelines with a guy who said hey to me and wound up breaking his leg. Don’t remember any of it. When I was at the doctor I thought it was Wednesday and it was a Friday. I could not imagine playing at the highest level of football against freaking Madrid as a goalkeeper which requires split second decisions and full field awareness. They said his concussion was an “explanation, not an excuse” I’d sure as heck like to know what an excuse would be. Death?

Never understood why Simon Mignolet was benched in that game for Karius... Rumours said that he had the same agent as Jurgen Klopp. Whatever must have been a nightmare for the youngster...

Things are not too bad for Karius. He's married to the hottest sports presenter on the planet, so that should make life more bearable.

Such a shame he had good potential

What did Mario Goetze do in the 2010 Wordl Cup? Unless I’m mistaken he wasn’t even on the squad.