“He trained exceptional, absolutely exceptional, and he slipped only a little bit on the grass, felt something, kept going on, everything is fine. After training, 'Yeah, I feel a little bit. Let's see.' Another scan, out for another three months or whatever. Horrible, absolutely horrible.

“He's so football smart, moving in the right areas, naturally defending from his position, goal threat, speed, cheeky. Very, very special player, I have to say. We missed him a lot.”Klopp continued: “We missed Diogo Jota as well – everybody realised when he came back how good he is. The other boys have to create in a lot of moments – we didn't create a lot or not enough, or not clear enough.”