Reds wreck ’em like bulls in china shop

WELL, Jurgen Klopp did warn his side would suffer. What he didn’t say was that they would make their entire fanbase suffer too.

Villarreal is a centre for the Spanish ceramics industry – but in the end Unai Emery’s side was left in pieces, bullied to distraction as Liverpool went on the rampage.

That was never on the cards at half-time after what seemed a rare mistake from boss Klopp (above).

As calls go, they do not get bigger than leaving your captain Jordan Henderson (below) on the bench for a European semi-final in a seething bear pit of a stadium.

For an hour, the shock was seismic, early trepidation on the faces of the Liverpool players turned to real fear after that early Villarreal goal by Boulaye Dia which so stunned them.

Yet Klopp is perhaps Liverpool’s greatest leader of all and as his side trudged in at the interval, their two-goal lead from the first leg gone, he stood up and produced his moment of inspiration.

There was a tactical shuffle, introducing the pace and incision of

Luis Diaz on the right in place of the ineffective Diogo Jota, and bringing

Liverpool’s play higher up the pitch in the faces of the Villarreal players.

After that tense first hour, after watching his side almost fall out of the Champions League with their Quadruple dream shattered, the Reds found a way. Again.

And this is the magic of this team and of Klopp himself. They have the heart, the spirit and the unmoving belief that they can overcome anything and everything.

They suffered alright – and we all suffered along with them.

But they found a way.

The team that looked so rudderless became Liverpool once more, their passion, their desire throbbing. As never before.

It means they march to Paris for the final, it means their Quadruple dream goes on until at least the FA Cup final. And it means we can’t ever write them off – not after one of the greatest shows of defiance in even this famous old club’s remarkable history.