Twitter reacts as Dejan Lovren's comments on Sergio Ramos winning Defender Of The Year go viral

Thursday night saw several football players attend the Champions League Draw and UEFA Awards’ ceremony in Monaco.

It was an evening to celebrate for all UEFA awardees and particularly Real Madrid as most of the accolades went to Los Blancos players.

Luka Modric was awarded the 2017-18 Champions League Midfielder of the Season and UEFA Men’s Player of the Year awards. Cristiano Ronaldo grabbed the Champions League Forward of the Season and Sergio Ramos, who infamously injured Mohamed Salah in the final, won the award for Defender of the Season.

Liverpool defender Dejan Lovren did not take the news too well. The Croatian has always believed that he deserves to be viewed as one of the best defenders in world football.

Lovren once said, "From my point of view I had people saying I had a difficult season but I don't agree with that."

"I took Liverpool to the final of the Champions League and now with my national team we are in the final. I think people should recognize that I am also one of the best defenders in the world and not just talk nonsense," he had added.

The 29-year-old defender was instrumental in Liverpool's journey to the Champions League final as well as Croatia's amazing trip to the World Cup final this summer.

Despite these achievements, the Defender of the Season award instead went to Real Madrid center-back Sergio Ramos.

Following the ceremony, Lovren made his feelings about the decision pretty clear in a comment he left on Champions League's Instagram post congratulating Ramos on the achievement. The comment has since been deleted, but not before fans got a screenshot.

Courtesy: Instagram

Twitter was quick to react to the Croatian's comment:

We don't understand it either, Dejan#lfc #UCL #Lovren #ChampionsLeague #Ramos pic.twitter.com/SAruBUovui

— Nail Sariyev (@nail_sariyev) August 31, 2018

Lovren not looking very happy after Ramos being awarded defender of the season😂 @LFC pic.twitter.com/YopFonteBu

— Jacy Perera (@Jacy_Perera) August 30, 2018

Ramos won Madrid the final whilst Lovren fails to tell Liverpool he was injured. What you face palming for Dejan you melt https://t.co/XlAWpnfc2M

— Cosmo Khan (@CosmoKh4n) August 30, 2018

I still think Lovren deserves the best defender awards when he get to keep Messi from scoring any goals and be one of World Cup finalist and played as defender on UCL final better than Sergio Ramos who know how to knock other player down😒

— [17’s 소피아] ☆★ (@2kjSofea) August 30, 2018

Ramos UEFA defender of the season. Liverpool fan petition inbound to give it to Lovren. #UCLdraw

— Swanny (@_swanny04_) August 30, 2018

Lovren kept Ronaldo out the game tonight and was flawless. All our defenders were superb. Ramos definitely did that on purpose, psychopath who has ruined a genuinely great guys year and really hurt his career

— TW (@REGlSTA) May 26, 2018

You don’t see Ramos, Varane, Godin, Bonucci, Chiellini, etc come out and say they’re the best defenders in the world. They let their performances do the talking. Lovren should’ve stayed quiet in my opinion. It’ll probably come back to haunt him.

— - (@lfcrealtalk) July 14, 2018

In the Champions League draw, Atletico Madrid, Borussia Dortmund and Monaco were all in Group A; Tottenham will meet Barcelona and Inter Milan in Group B; and Liverpool will have to battle against Paris Saint-Germain and Napoli.