How different Liverpool’s season would look if they could see a job through to the end. Think of the games: Watford, Newcastle, now Chelsea. Both matches against Sevilla. That’s six Premier League
points gone and Champions League progress in the balance because they cannot get across the line.
The best teams know how to do it. Run the clock down, kill the contest. It might not be pretty but pretty doesn’t secure prizes or
meet objectives. Don’t Liverpool need to be more streetwise?
Jurgen Klopp greeted the question with a furrowed brow. He then, firmly, clarified his principles.
‘The day when somebody thinks like this \(in my teams) — with not being a proper sportsman and being fair — then I stop,’
said Klopp, after Chelsea had pegged back his Liverpool team when Willian’s freak 85th-minute chip cancelled out Mohamed
Salah’s opener.