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Perhaps counterintuitively, the defensive players we've added have made a big difference in this regard. Alisson, Trent, van Dijk, Gomez, Robertson, and Fabinho are all very good passers of the ball which draws out the opposition a little bit, and allows us to get the ball in dangerous positions much quicker. They're also snuffing out attacks earlier and winning the ball higher up the pitch than the players they replaced, meaning we're spending more time on the front foot and putting the opposition under pressure that eventually tells. @LFCMike mentioned our defensive improvement, which is obviously massive, but I think the contribution those same players make to the attack is overlooked sometimes.

I think the simple answer is better footballers and more of them but there's obviously a bit more to it than that. Under Rodgers, mainly in 12/13 and 14/15, it was stop Suarez and then later Sturridge or Coutinho and you stop Liverpool. In Klopp's first year to 18 months it wasn't necessarily always a case of us struggling to break teams down. We had a few results against lesser sides where we scored once or twice in a game at home but still failed to win. I can think of a few 2-2 draws and a 2-3 defeat to Swansea off the top of my head. Alisson and Van Dijk have changed everything for this side. You never felt confident that we'd keep clean sheets before those two and we no longer have to score 3+ to guarantee a win. The options off the bench or when we make a few changes are obviously also much better now too. With a stronger defence and midfield now too we've seen Klopp go with a 4-2-3-1 quite often this season to fit Shaqiri in which obviously helps our attacking options but hasn't taken much away from the defensive solidity.

Wouldn't mind finding that, haha...

Has the mystery of Napoleon's lost gold been solved? Historian says treasure hunters have spent 200 years looking in the wrong place - and his loot is hidden in his hometown Ross Ibbetson For Mailonline A Russian historian claims to have solved the 200-year-old mystery of where Napoleon's troops hid 80 tonnes of gold on their retreat from Moscow in 1812. Viacheslav Ryzhkov claims the French Emperor ordered decoys to be sent to a fictional burial site 40 miles from the actual location. Ryzhkov says the famed 'Napoleon Lake', Semlevo, in the Smolensk region was a fraud, while the real loot was carted off to Lake Bolshaya Rutavech near his hometown of Rudnya. It was Napoleon himself who accompanied the real bounty and ordered decoy convoys to be sent towards Lake Semlevo to distract Alexander I's forces.

It's all good, folks. I remembered the pattern and promptly removed it