Roberto Firmino’s 90th-minute header sent Liverpool back to the top of the Premier League with a 2-1 victory over Tottenham Hotspur, whose 11-match unbeaten run came to an end on Wednesday night.
Tottenham began the night ahead on goal difference and will rue some golden chances after the break but Firmino’s goal sparked joy amongst the 2,000 fans allowed in at Anfield. 
All eyes were on Anfield where Jose Mourinho’s Tottenham were to face the biggest test yet of their title credentials against Juergen Klopp’s champions. A fascinating clash of styles ensued with Liverpool dominating possession but Tottenham carving out enough chances to have ended Liverpool’s long unbeaten home run in the Premier League, which now extends to 66 matches.
Liverpool went ahead through Mohamed Salah’s deflected effort but Tottenham levelled from their first attack when Son Heung-min raced on to Giovani Lo Celso’s through ball and drilled a shot past Alisson.
Tottenham offered more threat after the break and Steven Bergwijn burst through into the box but his shot cannoned off the inside of the upright. Seconds later Harry Kane headed wide from a corner with the goal at his mercy.
The visitors paid dearly for their missed chances as Brazilian Firmino sent a bullet header past Hugo Lloris in the final minute of normal time. Mourinho and Klopp had a lengthy discussion after the final whistle with the Spurs boss saying he told his Liverpool counterpart that the “better team did not win”. “I thought he was joking, but he wasn’t,” Klopp said.
Despite the victory, the Liverpool manager said Tottenham will be in the battle for the title right until the end. “They will be top of the table until the end of the season because they are really good. But to play against them is a proper challenge and to play like us, is pretty special,” said the German. Klopp’s counterpart Jose Mourinho said his team had deserved not only a point but victory from the game but the German, not surprisingly disagreed. “It was a top game, (we) deserved the three points against a top side, organisation-wise so difficult to play against them with the counter-attacking threat they have. So, I liked the game a lot,” he said.
“Of course Tottenham had chances, I know that they scored a goal and an unbelievably tight offside decision — we are really not lucky with these moments in the moment. They had other chances. But around these moments we were completely in charge of the game, which is important, stay concentrated, protected our attacks sensationally well, counter-press was good, passing was good,” he added.
Mourinho brushed off talk of his team being title contenders but said they had to learn how to finish off their opponents in big games. “I think the first thing that makes title contenders is to go to every match to win it, with that ambition. I promise you that the ambition is there. If in any match you see us not trying to win it, it’s not because we won’t want to... it’s because the opponent pushes us to different situations. You have to kill matches of this dimension. You have just to kill it. The game was there. We were in the face of the keeper two or three times and we just have to kill it.
“Steven Bergwijn has two face to face with the keeper, we have the corner of Harry (Kane) with the free header, we had other counter-attacking situations that we didn’t finish. We had it, we knew how to hurt and we should do much more than we did,” he said.