DEJAN LOVREN has admitted his respect for the lone Everton fan he spotted watching Liverpool’s Champions League victory parade.
An estimated 750,000 Red supporters filled the Merseyside city on Sunday to celebrate their European Cup triumph over Tottenham.
Lovren was on top of the bus as the Anfield club paraded through a swarm of fans desperate to get a glimpse at Jurgen Klopp’s squad.
However, among the quarter of a million individuals, the Croatian managed to notice one spec of Blue in a sea of red.
The former Southampton defender shared a video of the hilarious sighting and admitted he enjoyed that a Toffee fan joined in the revelries.
In a post on Instagram, the 29-year-old wrote: “I always heard that Liverpool and Everton fans had a friendly rival and could go to games together.
“Now I have seen it myself, #respect.”
Despite the local rivalry, both Liverpool and Everton share a good relationship as clubs, which mostly extends between supporters.
After the tower which depicted Everton’s club badge was vandalised with the words “6 times”, a group of separate Liverpool supporters helped clean up the graffiti.
The Grade II listed former lock-up, also known as Prince Rupert’s Tower, has been the centrepiece of the Toffee’s crest for more than 80 years.
Liverpool had picked up their sixth European Cup triumph at the Wanda Metropolitano with a 2-0 win over Spurs.
A Mohamed Salah penalty after two minutes and a late Divock Origi strike was enough to seal the Reds first piece of silverware under Klopp.
Lovren did not play a single minute of the final but still took part in a unique celebration of his own, after he cut out a section of the net after the game.
The centre-back’s future at Anfield remains uncertain with SunSport revealing he has three clubs in Italy chasing him this summer.
