Of his many sayings, one of Jurgen Klopp’s favourites is “We’re Liverpool, of course we do it the hard way!”
What’s the German for ‘you’re not wrong Kaiser’? Ok, maybe not the last bit, but you get the drift. This wasn’t just the hard way, it was the most tortuous, ridiculous, excruciating way to win a trophy. But boy it was beautiful.
And Klopp must take immense credit for it, not just in his ability to adjust the gameplan to accommodate the loss of the influential Thiago in the warm up, but to stick to his principles, even with an important piece of silverware on the line.
