The experience of a second consecutive season in the top flight is showing in players who have taken five points from visits to Liverpool, Tottenham and Chelsea. The lessons the home side are learning in their second full season under Klopp are more difficult to ascertain. When James Tarkowski swung a long ball out to the left wing the defence disintegrated. “It was just a long ball,” he said. “We got caught on a long ball, the irony of that.

Source: The Guardian September 16, 2017 16:21 UTC