Jurgen showed just why Jose is yesterday’s man

THEY stood no more than a few yards away from each other for the entire piece, but the gap between the two might has well have been a motorway’s length.

Jurgen Klopp, the progressive, thoroughly modern manager, cherishing possession, attacking on all fronts.

Jose Mourinho, the decorated coach failing to move with the times. His natural caution – so often the basis of his success – now costing his team dear.

Only when Mourinho was forced to move the bus into opposition territory did Spurs look like getting something from this game.

In a much-improved second-half performance, they would have salvaged a slice of the spoils had Heung-min Son and Giovani Lo Celso not wasted late, great chances but yet another Liverpool win was hardly ill-deserved.

And it can now go without saying the title is theirs – take it as red.

The sub-plot here, though, was

Mourinho versus

Klopp (right).

Mourinho, over his career, has faced the German 11 times and has only recorded two wins.

That sort of record can get into a manager’s mind and, judging by Tottenham’s first-half approach, it certainly got into Jose’s.

Despite scoring at a rate of two a game since Mourinho took charge, Spurs’ early bus-parking was entirely predictable.

The problem is that this tactic needs the right personnel to work, needs resolute and technically sound defensive operators.

This Tottenham team is shy of a good few of those.

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