Just before Christmas, Jurgen Klopp declared that the only team who don’t change the way they play when they face Liverpool is Manchester City. The clear inference was that the rest of the Premier League seek to limit the damage against his team.
Here on another memorable Anfield afternoon, Totttenham changed all that.
Mauricio Pochettino’s team conceded a goal at either end of this game to the astonishing Mohamed Salah and also managed to miss the penalty. Still, though, Tottenham left Merseyside with a point and for all the talk about the rights and wrongs of some of the decisions, it was the very least that they deserved.