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Hello. It was in April 2019, after a vital win at Southampton, that Jurgen Klopp christened his team “mentality monsters”. (He used a third word, but this is a family newspaper.) Klopp’s Liverpool have so many qualities, but their mental strength is surely the greatest. They have needed plenty of it this season. As well as coming from behind to win three of their first eight league games, Liverpool have had to deal with a surreal 7-2 defeat and an increasingly grotesque injury list.
Now they have another serious test of their metal: Leicester, who on current form are the most dangerous visitors in the Premier League. They savaged Manchester City and Leeds on the counter-attack and won at Arsenal and West Brom as well. Leicester have also had plenty of injuries, though you wouldn’t know it from the smart, unobtrusive way Brendan Rodgers has filled the various gaps in his first XI.
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