There are times when assessments of Liverpool’s most recent European success sound a tad patronising.

Take, for example, the standard appraisal of their 2005 Champions League win. “They won it with Djimi Traore and Igor Biscan,” is often stated with incredulity, as if a poor side somehow fluked its way to an Istanbul penalty shoot-out.

That team had flaws, but also had Steven Gerrard, Xabi Alonso, Sami Hyypia, Dietmar Hamann and Jamie Carragher, so was hardly bereft of world-class players. All would fit comfortably into a Jurgen Klopp side.

It was similar when Liverpool reached the Europa League final in 2016, as if Borussia Dortmund and Villarreal were only beaten because The Kop sang, Klopp and his players misguidedly represented as the support act running around a bit in the Anfield atmosphere.

When Liverpool’s limitations were exposed against Sevilla on neutral territory, the sceptics’ felt suspicions were confirmed. Without their own fans to guide them along Anfield Road, Liverpool wilted in Basel. The sight of Klopp calling on supporters to make more noise as the Spaniards turned his midfield into traffic cones seemed rather apt.