Jurgen Klopp insisted he has no interest in thinking about the size of Liverpool's Premier League lead after they extended it to 13 points by thrashing Leicester City.

The Reds dominated their nearest challengers on their own patch on Boxing Day as a Roberto Firmino brace, a James Milner penalty, and a fine Trent Alexander-Arnold strike earned them a 4-0 win at the King Power Stadium.

The nature of the scoreline only added to the growing feeling that the European and world champions will go on to lift the English title in May, but Klopp is far from convinced that anything is decided just yet.

In fact, he only sees talk of their cushion at the summit as a negative, given it could well be a precursor to what would be an unprecedented collapse.

“The only thing that changes in the question is that the number is different," he said.

“10, 11, now it's 13. We don't feel it, we don't think about it. We didn't mention it once before the game because it's just not interesting.

“I can write the stories myself. Never before in the history of English football has a team had as big a lead and lost the lead. That sounds in my ear negative, so why should we think about something like that?

“We are focused on the next game. We play Wolves, Sheffield United, Everton, Tottenham and Manchester United in our next five games. That doesn't sound like anything is decided in my ears, to be honest.

“We will try to make sure we are ready for these games. The number of the lead is not relevant to us."

The only apparent downside of Liverpool's win over Brendan Rodgers' team was the loss of captain Jordan Henderson to injury late in the second half.

However, Klopp offered positive news on his skipper, saying: “Jordan is okay. He got a kick on the shin. It was bleeding.

“But he told me afterwards 'I could have carried on!'. So obviously it's not so bad this time."