The fourth official's board went up to confirm there would be six minutes of added time and the groans around Anfield were probably audible to Arsenal and Manchester City down at the Etihad.
It was a clear sign of how fraught the nerves had become inside the ground as Liverpool looked to close out one of the most difficult assignments of the campaign against a Brighton & Hove Albion side who, as is now customary, gave them as stern an examination as possible.
But if that deafening discontent was heard down the other end of the M62, so too will have been the cheers a few moments later - roughly about six minutes, in fact - as Klopp toasted to a huge three points in trademark, fist-bumping style. They are going to miss that routine around these parts, that is for sure.
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Before that most performative of post-match jigs could be undertaken, however, those on the Kop and the manager himself had to withstand what would have felt like the Ice Age of stoppage time. It was a frenetic, chaotic period that encapsulated why this 2-1 win had been so absorbing for the 90 that had gone before it. For the neutral at least.
Liverpool were unwilling or simply incapable of running down the clock with any sort of poise or clarity. Instead, they were hell-bent on adding to their tally. It's a team built in their manager's image, all right, even if he is now well into his final weeks. Talk has ramped up in recent days over the identity of the man who replaces him but those who aren't making the call simply need to soak up the final days of Klopp while they are here now. It sounds like
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