Klopp can stop Kane spanking

PUNTERS will be queueing up to bet leaky Liverpool get a Kaning at Wembley this afternoon – and who can blame them?

Yes, Harry Kane’s explosion of scoring form last month was fuelled in large part by some limp opposition.

Yes, his Premier League numbers this season are still running some way below his brilliant 2016/17 data.

But you wouldn’t know it to look at him, would you? Confidence is king. And, right now, it looks like Harry wakes up every morning with his orb in his hand and his crown on his head.

Liverpool’s defence are no strangers to the dunce’s cap the 7-0 jolly-up in Slovenia in midweek was their first away clean sheet of the season, and their fourth in 14 all told.

But remember they have blanked Manchester United and Arsenal along the way.

Don’t swallow the goals-galore hype that says today’s game has got to be some sort of custard-pie fight, because Jurgen Klopp’s Reds will be too busy prancing about to shut the back door.

Klopp drew five out of 10 meetings with fellow top-six clubs last season, with seven of those results ‘UNDER 2.5 goals’.

Klopp’s Liverpool record against ‘top-six’ sides is nine draws in 23, with 14 UNDERS IT’S 10/11 your choice on the gender of the next child to emerge from the Duchess of Cambridge (not the pub).

No need for guesswork, I have consulted a crone, who says if the fair Kate (left) will squat upon a patch of cowslip at the next full moon, her badger will whistle once for a girl, twice for a boy. Three whistles, wrong badger.

There’s a tenner in it for mum if she’s game, so I’ve written to Kensington Palace outlining the plot. Stay tuned.