Jürgen Klopp had promised that his Liverpool team were “on fire to strike back” after their five-game winless streak in the Premier League, which had yielded only three points and one goal. On a night when Sadio Mané provided the spark, the champions delivered on the promise to jump back up into fourth place.
The decisive details have eluded them in recent weeks but not here. Mané was central to Liverpool’s first and second goals – scored by Roberto Firmino and Trent Alexander-Arnold – and, after Pierre-Emile Højbjerg had raised the prospect of an unlikely Tottenham comeback, Mané got the third himself. It was a night when he could have had three or four.
