Not perfect, but right: Liverpool's Europa League loss may have denied Klopp a golden swansong but...

For a performance that ended as meekly as this, Jurgen Klopp was in a surprisingly buoyant mood. Because, as deflated as everyone at Liverpool felt in January when Klopp's departure was announced, there may actually be a worse feeling. There was certainly supposed to be a send-off in Dublin for the Europa League, regardless of what happened in the Premier League. Liverpool instead never got close.