If Liverpool do go on and make up enough ground to lift the Premier League title, or indeed beat their domestic and European rivals to win the Champions League this season, the owners of the blue half of Manchester may want to have a word with a former employee.
Patrick Vieira, once a Man City midfielder and New York City FC head coach, saw his Crystal Palace side slice through the Reds’ defence multiple times in an eventual - and perhaps undeserved - 3-1 defeat back at the end of January and, since then, Jurgen Klopp has effectively reverted to a different type of lockdown.
