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King Karius! How Liverpool flop Loris has gone from zero to hero and revived his career with 'impossible saves' - seven years on from his Champions League final nightmare

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Former Liverpool goalkeeper Loris Karius has been described as the 'phoenix of football' leading Schalke's revival from between the sticks, as his own career rises from the ashes.

Seven years on from that fateful night in Kyiv, the last time we would ever see Karius don a Reds shirt in a competitive setting, the 32-year-old is finally finding his feet again in the German second division.

Karius had been on a downward spiral ever since he was humiliated in front of the entire world in the 2018 Champions League final, in which he was culpable for two of Real Madrid's three goals.