Andrea Pirlo says the Liverpool star’s attitude wasn’t befitting of a Champions League final.
Andrea Pirlo has questioned Divock Origi’s attitude after helping Liverpool to the Champions League title on Saturday.
Jurgen Klopp’s side beat Tottenham 2-0 in Madrid last night.
Origi, a second-half substitute, made the game safe late on by drilling across Hugo Lloris’s goal at a time when Tottenham were pushing for an equaliser.
Beyond that, the Belgian striker, who scored twice in the famous 4-0 win over Barcelona in the previous round, struggled to impose himself on the game after replacing Roberto Firmino on 58 minutes.
And AC Milan legend Pirlo has told Sky Italia that he was far from impressed with Origi’s cameo.
He said: “Origi? He came in badly, if he hadn’t have had scored, he would have been beaten. His was not a Champions League final attitude, I really didn’t like it.”
Origi won’t really care about the criticism. He, like Pirlo, is a champion of Europe and nobody can take that away from him.
It was something of a fairytale end to the season for the former Lille hitman who, in addition to scoring twice against Barcelona, also grabbed a late winner in a 3-2 win at Newcastle on May 4.
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