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THOSE who grumble about the quality of the Premier League are wasting their energy.

They should use it instead to appreciate the finest club side of our generation.

The team emulating the consistency of Arsene Wenger’s Invincibles, the box-office silkiness of Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City, and the win-ugly mentality of Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea.

Liverpool under Jurgen Klopp are a phenomenon. Football’s equivalent of Roger Federer, Mike Tyson and Tiger Woods at their peak. Sometimes you just have to sit back and admire the many strings to their bow.

On Saturday at Carrow Road their back five stepped up for a curtain call.

Yes, Sadio Mane came off the bench to break Norwich hearts and do what he does best with just 13 minutes left. But if the ‘mentality monsters’ at the back not been on top form,, it would have been a strike to rescue a point rather than snatch all three.

Here’s the context.

Shortly before the break, Lukas Rupp stole in behind the Liverpool defence and homed in on goalkeeper

Alisson. Teemu

Pukki was there for company, poised to pull the trigger for what seemed a certain goal against the run of play.

Allison worried them both out of it, staying up for as long as he could before reaching down to claw the ball to safety.

Incredibly, Liverpool have conceded just once in the Premier League since December

4 – a run of 990 minutes.

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MAN ENOUGH Sadio Mane turns and fires home the goal that sealed the points