This was Liverpool’s 14th win of the season, making them the only team in the Premier League to win two-thirds of their games. They won’t have long to bask in it, which may be why Klopp was quite exacting in his comments. They go again on Wednesday, taking a 2-1 lead to Fulham for the second leg of the Carabao semi-final. If they are this efficient again, they will sail through that, but they’re a young team and they showed in the first half here that a stumble is not out of the question. “When we have momentum,” Klopp said just now, “we’re good. When we don’t, we’re not.”
David Hytner has filed his match report from the south coast, so that’s my cue to clock off. Thanks for your company and correspondence, and sorry I didn’t get through it all. A game that was going nowhere suddenly turned into The Nunez and Jota Show, and it made riveting viewing.
