Rarely can Jurgen Klopp have been as delighted to be proven so gloriously, emphatically wrong.
Before this latest meeting between the Premier League’s most prominent powers of recent times, the Liverpool boss declared his team simply couldn’t compete with Manchester City.
It was, of course, in reference to the limitless funds lavished on the Etihad club by their Abu Dhabi owners when compared to the more frugal approach of Liverpool owners Fenway Sports Group.
