The boss hinted as much after the 1-1 draw with West Ham, which took the Reds above Brendan Rodgers’s side in the Premier League table for the first time since the clubs fought it out at Old Trafford, back in September.
The picture has twisted and turned in unimaginable ways - on and off the pitch - since that meeting 312 days ago, which was settled by Marcus Rashford’s early penalty.
Few inside a raucuous, red-hot Old Trafford that day would have banked on an energetic but ultimately scoreless Leicester recovering from that M16 setback to win 10 of their next 11, including a 9-0 tonking of Southampton, to briefly threaten a challenge to Liverpool at the top of the table.