Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson says the tough times the team experienced in the past led to their Champions League triumph last season.

The Reds had gone very close the year before, but they were denied in the final by Real Madrid.

But they would have the last laugh, defeating Tottenham to win the 2019 edition of the Champions League.

"It was an accumulative thing, if you obviously look at Madrid, the league that season, if you look further back to the league finals and League One finals that were lost as well," Henderson told BT Sport.

"So if you look back there were a few moments where we've been through those tough times together.

"We always responded in the right way and we always kept going and kept improving so I knew after the last game of the league, I knew it would in some way help us going into the final to make sure it wasn't going to happen again.

"Certainly the Madrid game, you learn a lot from playing in finals and especially a Champions League one. I felt we learnt a lot from that Madrid game."