Larry Ryan: Liverpool are better built for a world after perfection

Maybe Liverpool’s boffins are just better than the boffins who calculate expected goals — who wait until the ball arrives at the feet of Mo Salah 10 yards out before crunching their numbers

Jurgen Klopp takes training at Melwood Training Ground. Picture: John Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images

We know that Liverpool lost last season’s title race by eight ‘expected points’. Though the sticklers for detail will tell you that they also won it by 18 actual points.

Somewhere in that 26-point swing might lie evidence that Jurgen Klopp overachieved wildly and the whole charade is about to unravel.