3 CAN WORK IT OUT

Fab Four have lost their front man but Klopp’s on-song trio can still get Kop rocking

THE Fab Four may be no more since front man Philippe Coutinho left but the three remaining band members can still knock out one hell of a tune.

Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane hit all the right notes to prove there is most definitely life after Coutinho. In the past the Reds have suffered after losing star names like Xabi Alonso, Javier Mascherano and Luis Suarez. But they produced one of their finest displays of the season to hand Pep Guardiola’s City their first league defeat of the season in emphatic fashion and show they can keep progressing.

A second succesive top-four finish, something they last achieved in 2009, looks well within their reach after they leapfrogged Chelsea into third place, level on points with Manchester United, who host Stoke tonight.

Don’t be fooled by the closeness of the scoreline or the fact that City almost snatched what would have been an undeserved equaliser in stoppage time in this craziest of games. Liverpool were so much better.

City, who last won here in May 2003, simply had no answer to the pace, pressing, movement and ruthless finishing of Salah, Firmino and Mane.

But as brilliant as they were, it would be wrong to heap all the