Coutinho is set to make his first appearance of the season for Liverpool in tonight’s Champions League match against Seville EPA/PETER POWELLAfter Liverpool’s last meeting with Seville, in the Europa League final defeat last May, Jürgen Klopp took to the microphone as his players began drowning their sorrows back in the team hotel and promised there would be other nights when the overriding mood would be of celebration rather than recrimination. That the Spaniards are the opponents for Liverpool’s reappearance in the Champions League provides a sense of symmetry to the German’s tenure, while most of those present in Basle on that harrowing evening are still around to reap the benefit of what represents a sizeable forward step. The crucial question is whether Liverpool can make the necessary strides with these players Klopp has invested so much faith inThere was no major bloodletting despite a second final defeat in a matter of months during Klopp’s first season, the League Cup having also evaded his players’ grasps.…

Source: The Times September 13, 2017 11:03 UTC