Klopp has stuck with a high line and hard press while others have gone conservative and win at Spurs brings far brighter feel
Is it done? Have Liverpool, after 40 days without a Premier league win, returned from the wilderness with Thursday’s 3-1 victory over Tottenham? Is that it, doubts over, confidence restored? Certainly the swagger with which Liverpool saw out the game made it hard to understand just how they have failed to score in four league games, how they have somehow let nine points slip in five games against West Brom, Newcastle, Southampton, Manchester United and Burnley.
Was it just a blip? Just one of those things? Given Liverpool won the shot count in all five of those matches, was it just a case of the forwards being slightly out of sorts? Or was it something more serious? After all, Liverpool haven’t quite been at their very best for a year. Since the restart in June they’ve taken 54 points from 29 games. Projected over a full season that is 71 points, which recent history suggests would be enough to challenge for fourth place, but certainly not the title.
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