Jürgen Klopp has made a habit of conjuring clever soundbites during his time at Liverpool to encapsulate either an aim, or one of his team’s endearing qualities.

No sooner had Arsenal been overpowered, than the man who vowed to turn “doubters into believers”, and has hailed his side as “mentality monsters”, allowed another one-liner to trip off the tongue.

“Our identity is intensity,” the Liverpool manager said, although on this occasion the catchphrase also represented a call to arms.

Few would disagree with Klopp’s assertion, the sheer relentlessness of this performance leading him to contend that Arsenal were “physically broken” by the time Mohamed Salah scored a sublime second, and Liverpool’s third, shortly before the hour mark.

More pertinent is to wonder how such incessant