As Jurgen Klopp repelled questions about Liverpool’s title credentials, it was almost like he wanted to turn believers into doubters.

“Stay cool,” he said as Kop chants about topping the table made their earliest appearance since the days Alan Hansen was skipper.

We all hear the cautionary tale when a side goes top.

“Don’t get carried away,” reads the sign on the placard, prophets of impending doom determined to tell you the meteor is heading Anfield’s way.

Naturally Klopp won’t get ‘carried away’. Nor will his players, whose preaching to take one game at a time will be erased from every interview when reaching the cliché filtering stage of editorial control over the next few months.