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Kolo Toure has been practising his penalties ahead of the Europa League final – but hopes the Reds will have the cup in the bag before then.

The experienced Ivorian scored a crucial penalty in an African Nations Cup final shoot-out against Ghana in an emotional last game as an international last February.

Liverpool have already enjoyed shoot-out success this season, beating Carlisle and then Stoke in the semi-final of the Capital One Cup.

But their luck ran out in the final where Man City held their nerve best to lift the trophy at Wembley.

Toure said: “Of course we think about that. I've been practising my penalties definitely. But the decision is taken by the manager who knows best. I know as an experienced player when the time comes you have to make a decision, to take or not.

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“We will see what happens. We have really technical players in the team and sometimes you go through tough times to have a better time.

“Against City was a tough time and we will learn from that as a team and only them we will make a decision for penalties but maybe we won't need them”

Toure spoke to his teammates after that Wembley heartache to stress that it was a feeling they could use the next time they reached such an occasion and that time will come on Wednesday.

“We had a difficult time. We lost and when you lose like that in a final you don't want to do it again so I know every player will be ready.”

The 35-year-old is determined to enjoy the final in Basel, aware even after all his time in the game that it is not something that comes round very often.

His last and only European final was a defeat with Arsenal to Barcelona in the Champions league final of 2006.

"To be honest when you get to that stage I just try to enjoy the time as much as possible. I've played 15 years of my career and you don't get in this kind of situation very often.

“This is my second time in a European final - that shows it is really tough as I've been playing for top clubs. You need to enjoy that.

“You will remember this journey for all the years and people will talk about it, your kids will talk about it and even people who didn't see you play will talk about that and you need to really enjoy it. That is what I will try to tell the young players.”

Toure has expressed a desire to keep playingas long as possible and with his contract up, it remains to eb seen whether the St-Jakob stadium in Basel is the last time the fans' favourite pulls on the red jersey of Liverpool.

But the player himself does not want to think about it until the main business is decided.

“I don't know (about the future) but the most important thing for me is to win. If we can win that trophy I will be really happy.

“I don't think about anything else. I don't want to talk about that now because it is not finished and there is a big game coming.”