Jurgen Klopp used to call his Liverpool team the Mentality Monsters. Arne Slot's rendition is more like the Physicality Monsters.

It does not have the same ring to it. Nor is it as sexy, all this running around lark. But as they close in on a second Premier League crown, it is the warrior-like trait of each and every player that is underpinning this almighty charge to the finish line.

At full-time on Sunday, Dominik Szoboszlai sank to the turf, drenched in sweat, face on grass. It was a scene one would expect at the finish line of a marathon when the famed 'runner's high' gives way to an overwhelming exhaustion and pride at the mammoth task just completed.

His midfield buddy, Alexis Mac Allister, looked like he had just done 12 rounds with Oleksandr Usyk. The Argentine, carrying a mug of mat