Jurgen Klopp could be forgiven for forgetting that losing feeling. In an extraordinary season, Liverpool have all but eliminated the defeat. With 61 games gone, they have only lost three times and one of those, the second leg against Inter Milan, scarcely mattered amid an aggregate victory. They are the only team in Europe’s five top leagues who have gone unbeaten in 2022.
They are strangers to other kinds of setbacks, too: they have not gone out of any competition this season. Their quest for the quadruple will last until 22 May. It probably won’t end in defeat on Sunday, but nor is the day likely to finish with Liverpool as Premier League champions.
