“Liverpool are a great team that always think about going forward and playing exciting attacking football,” says Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino. This is true, but the approach didn’t do the Reds much good when they travelled to face Tottenham at Wembley back in October. On that day, Spurs ran riot with Harry Kane scoring two goals in a 4-1 win.
“Nobody should feel good,” blasted Liverpool boss Jürgen Klopp after that harrowing 90 minutes for his team. “We had chances, but you can’t get results with a performance like this against a team like Tottenham.”
At that stage, Liverpool were ninth in the table, but after going through November and December unbeaten, the Anfield side now find themselves well and truly in the scrap for a top-four finish.