Anfield will be the venue for the king of set-pieces to work his magic today. Forget Cardiff manager Neil Warnock and his famed direct football. Jurgen Klopp has revealed how he has dedicated extra time in training to make his side English football’s dead-ball specialists.

With six goals, Liverpool have scored more than any Premier League side from corners or free-kicks this season. Although Klopp is usually a manager who shares credit with his coaching staff for any improvements, in this case he says the change in emphasis on the training ground was his instruction.

“I am really happy to share all good things with everybody, but [on this] I wanted it,” said Klopp. “I wanted it because I never had it before – a proper set-piece team.

“There are games when it is 0-0 and you need a set-piece to win the game. We scored from time to time and never had big problems defending against them – although here at the beginning there was.

“You need consistency in taking them. We tried to do it a bit more in preseason and because we scored a few, the boys are now open for it – really focused on it. They do all the runs. Hopefully, it will stay like this and will get even better. I had no idea we had scored the most goals.”