By Paul Tomkins

Another away clean sheet, and another victory. The manager – a fraud, apparently – who couldn’t organise a defence has equalled the club record for the consecutive away clean sheets, and the goal was scored by the player who can’t run properly, and who was never going to be good enough. The star of the show was a goalkeeper who is a liability, while the centre-back who never looks comfortable in possession yet again posted a 90% pass completion rate, before resorting to successful dribbles upfield that finally silenced the home crowd.

The net result was the Reds are now just four points off Manchester City in second place.

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