Build from the back. So the cliché goes. It tends to be the objective of any manager who takes over or constructs a new team. Jurgen Klopp sounded a voice of footballing orthodoxy when he said: “I like to build a team from the defensive side.”
Yet, for the second time, Klopp may be going against the grain and building from the front. “Liverpool Reloaded,” as their manager branded them at the start of the season, have a solitary clean sheet in the Premier League. They have conceded in the first half of all seven other games. But they have scored in all eight games, with at least two goals in six of them and three in each of their Anfield encounters. In the tradition of Liverpool 1.0, the first incarnation of his first great side, they promise entertainment.
