Klopp’s eye flyers blind side Spurs Rampant Reds turn tables on Tottenham

While Liverpool continue to set a ferocious pace at the top of the Premier League, Tottenham already look like a team that has hit the wall.

Jurgen Klopp’s men maintained their perfect start to the season at Wembley thanks to goals by Gini Wijnaldum and Roberto Firmino.

Five games, five wins – and a huge statement of intent from the Reds as they took apart a Spurs team that had battered them last season.

Mauricio Pochettino is paying a heavy price after a World Cup summer.

No fewer than seven of his players who started the game reached the semifinals in Russia. Liverpool had just one.

Pochettino was right to claim that his team should have then being given a penalty for Sadio Mane’s challenge

on Heung-Min Son but the reality was that the scoreline flattered his team.

“I don’t want to complain about the World Cup,” said Pochettino.

“I trust my team 100 per cent and 200 per cent. I am not going to change now.”

Only an offside f lag against Mane prevented Firmino from giving the visitors the lead inside the first minute.

Michel Vorm then denied Mo Salah who seized on a wayward Eric Dier pass.

But when Liverpool took the lead in the 39th minute it was down to a Vorm mistake. The Dutchman, in for the injured Hugo Lloris, flapped at James Milner’s corner.

And when Dier fai led to clear, Wijnaldum was able to loop a header over Harry Winks and under the bar.

Mane broke in behind Kieran Trippier in the 54th minute to tease over a cross that came off the boot of Jan Vertongen and hit the post. When the grounded Vorm failed to collect the loose ball, Firmino couldn’t miss the target.

The striker later had to go off injured after being gouged in the eye by Vertongen and Spurs got a late lift when Christian Eriksen’s corner found Erik Lamela at the far- post and the Argentine finished from a tight angle.

Cue a desperate Spurs surge that saw Son bundled over by Mane.

Referee Oliver could not have seen the contact on Son’s foot that had indeed sent him tumbling.

Klopp said: “The performance was better than the result – and the result was perfect.”