Liverpool’s firepower will send shivers down Jose’s spine as Klopp stars pile on pressure
ANFIELD
With Manchester City almost home and hosed as far as the title is concerned, both Jurgen Klopp and Jose Mourinho will see the race for second as the chance to lay down a marker for next season.
“We need to be first of the last,” is how Mourinho recently explained it.
But at the moment, it is Herr Klopp who has more reason to flash those pearly whites.
Goals by Emre Can, Mo Salah (of course), Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane ensured that winning at Anfield is a wish that remains on David Moyes’ bucket list.
Yes, Liverpool still have obvious flaws defensively – and the sight of substitute Michail Antonio galloping through a gaping hole to drill home West Ham’s consolation briefly turned Klopp’s grin into a grimace on the hour.
But, by then, the home side were already 3-0 up and about to move above United and into the second place they can now start to covet.
When Firmino, Salah and Sadio Mane flick the switch, Liverpool are electric.
All three found the net against a Hammers team that were powerless to resist.
Salah has scored in each of his last six games and his tally for the season is now 31.
The Egyptian will feel he should have also gone home with the match ball after seeing one early shot brilliantly diverted on to the post by Adrian’s fingertips and squandering other chances he’d expect to bury. Firmino has 22