Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is not a man to hold back his emotions on the touchline but he expects his players to keep their cool in his first Merseyside derby.

As Aston Villa face Liverpool in the FA Cup semi-final, the stage will be familiar to Jack Grealish but his involvement far greater.

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There can be only one rational explanation for a Liverpool display of such unadulterated paucity, and it should be a grave cause for concern on the other side of Stanley Park.

THE 5-0 defeat in last season’s Wembley FA Cup semi-final to Stoke had hung around the neck of Bolton manager Owen Coyle, albatross-like, for seven months, yet even the keenest follower of the vagaries thrown up by football could not have predicted this outcome.