Liverpool set injuries aside to reiterate their status as Premier League comeback kings
by Richard Jolly
Feb 22, 2024
3 minutes
As long as they had 11 players, Jurgen Klopp had vowed, Liverpool would give it a go. Deprived of 10, going a goal down, they certainly did. A stunning turnaround brought Klopp’s band of brothers four goals and took them four points clear at the Premier League summit.
They head to Wembley on Sunday buoyant, despite their injury problems. Depleted, they were not defeated, transforming a deficit into an emphatic triumph with irrepressible energy. Klopp had imbued his makeshift side with a defiant spirit and, as threatened to earn their maiden win at Anfield, they required it.
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