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Liverpool's Mohamed Salah (centre) scores their side's first goal of the game during the Premier League match at Villa Park, Birmingham. Picture  Nick Potts/PA Wire.

JURGEN Klopp may have endured a holiday with Liverpool in unfamiliarly lowly territory but Mo Salah and Virgil van Dijk hinted at better things to come in 2023 for club and manager.

For the first time since his first Christmas as Liverpool manager in 2015, Jurgen Klopp entered the holiday period with his team out of the top four of the Premier League.