Liverpool have dominance.of a 1990s Manchester Utd

Boring Liverpool? After scoring three inside one half to cruise to victory over Ipswich at Anfield, the league leaders are in fact only guilty of one thing – being too good for the rest.

- PETE HALL

Pundits out for the sensationalist clicks – and Arne Slot’s toughto-please father – cannot gripe this time around, with a 4-1 success over a bedazzled Ipswich sending Liverpool six points clear at the top of the table.

What is most pleasing for the Anfield faithful, however, is the champion-like aura Liverpool have already created. Whenever teams came to Old Trafford in the late 1990s and early 2000s, they were already beaten before a ball was kicked. Manchester City mastered that backed-up superiority complex until their recent cataclysmic decline, too.

Anfield has always been a near unconquerable fortress. But while Jurgen Klopp’s heavy metal football used to blow teams away, there is a more calm and confident swagger to Slot’s charges, one similar to that of Sir Alex Ferguson’s trophy-laden team – the opposition could be disposed of without breaking sweat.