Five things we learned at Anfield last night

1. Klopp breaks Van Gaal stranglehold

The match programme’s spaghetti western-style front cover set the tone: This was a face-off between two managers with big reputations.

Yet while Jurgen Klopp had talked up Liverpool versus Manchester United as “the mother of all games”, his Manchester United counterpart Louis van Gaal has suggested that winning at Anfield would give him no more pleasure than beating West Bromwich Albion. If this was an attempt at mind games, it did not work.