Jürgen Klopp has scripted many a story with a happy ending in his seven seasons at Liverpool. Less than five months on, what he thought was a horror film – what he called one of the worst moments of his footballing life – turned into “a proper fairytale.”
The fear was that Harvey Elliott’s career was over before it had really begun, but here he returned in style, the 18-year-old scoring 18 minutes into his comeback. The dislocated ankle he sustained at Leeds 147 days earlier, when he was taken off on a stretcher and rushed to hospital, was consigned to history amid the euphoria of his first goal for Liverpool.
