Liverpool controversy at Tottenham has given Jurgen Klopp another unwelcome problem

From a high point in a Liverpool career to one of the lowest. All in the space of less than 72 hours.

And while it has been easily overlooked amid the furore sparked just minutes later, the red card for Curtis Jones on Saturday evening has dealt both the player and Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp a major blow just at the moment the 22-year-old had finally convinced the few remaining doubters over his suitability for the first team.

Jones was a midfield mainstay during the Reds' long unbeaten run that came shuddering to a controversial and dramatic halt at Tottenham Hotspur.

Given he had previously started just one Premier League game all season before being surprisingly thrown into the fray at Chelsea back in April, that the Academy graduate has chiselled out a specific role in two completely different midfield set-ups says much about his growing importance to Klopp.

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The first came alongside Fabinho and Jordan Henderson during the closing 11 games of last season as Liverpool shifted to a box-midfield that saw Trent Alexander-Arnold become an inverted right-back. Jones was employed on the left side of the engine room.

And after both Fabinho and Henderson departed during the summer to be replaced by £95million duo Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai, Jones was swiftly restored to the starting line-up once fully fit for the home win over Aston Villa having overcome a minor ankle issue.

That shouldn't be a surprise given the attitude demonstrated by Jones when talking to the ECHO during the summer. "The lads who have come in this summer we know are world class, but I don't