Europa League: Silverware means more than gold to Liverpool

A place in the Champions League may be at stake but Jurgen Klopp's side are in Basel to win a trophy above all else

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Liverpool face Sevilla in the Europa League final tonight with twin ambitions: to win the Europa League and to secure a place in the Champions League.

The two prizes go hand-in-hand but scratch very different itches for the modern football club, says Henry Winter in The Times. But he is in no doubt that Liverpool should go into the game thinking about silverware rather than gold.

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