Jurgen Klopp celebrates on the pitch after the English Premier League football match between Southampton and Liverpool at St Mary's Stadium, April 2019 (Image: GLYN KIRK/AFP via Getty Images)

At the height of Jurgen Klopp's time at Liverpool, his team had come to earn the nickname of the 'mentality monsters'. It was a moniker coined by the manager himself, who famously dubbed his players as such after a now iconic fightback to beat Barcelona 4-3 on aggregate to reach the 2019 Champions League final. Or so the legend goes.

Klopp had actually first used the phrase about a month earlier when they fought back from a goal down at Southampton to win 3-1 and keep on the tails of Manchester City, who would eventually beat them 98 points to 97 in a title race that more than made up for its l

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