FUL STEAM AHEAD

Trent and Co fire up title bid to get Klopp's farewell tour back on track

- MIKE WALTERS

TAKE it as Red Liverpool aren't coming quietly in the title race.

After the week from hell ambushed at home by Crystal Palace and turfed out of Europe by Atalanta they restored factory settings at Craven Cottage.

And those who questioned whether they had the emotional continence to handle the last month of manager Jurgen Klopp s farewell tour were presented with convincing evidence that Liverpool have the firmness of sphincter and rectum to take it to the wire again.

Trent Alexander Arnold's rascal freekick set them on their way. Never mind bend it like Beckham all want to tonk it like Trent.

Fulham had given Klopp's bounty-hunters all the trouble they could handle on their last three visits to the Cottage but this time they were short of a gallop.

So it's back to a three-way tug-of-war at the top of the Premier League: Arsenal, Liverpool and those overworked saps from Manchester who are forced to play football twice a week as the price of success.