Liverpool frustrated by dogged Southampton

Southampton 0 Liverpool 0: So much has been said about Liverpool’s wealth of attacking options, and rightly so, but Jurgen Klopp’s side were sufficiently stifled by a dogged Southampton in a game in which they could not find a way past Fraser Forster.

Sadio Mane, Phillipe Coutinho, Roberto Firmino, and even Nathaniel Clyne all tried and failed to beat Forster, as Georginio Wijnaldum described it “as one of those days”.

For Liverpool there was some consolation, though, after recording their first clean sheet on the road at the 12th time asking. Southampton’s holding midfielders in particular, Oriol Romeu and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, relished carrying out the dirty work against the Premier League’s pacesetters. Steven Davis, perhaps the most underrated player in the top flight, also mucked in to ensure a frustrating afternoon for Klopp, who headed down the tunnel soaked through in his waterproof coat at the final whistle.