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Well, Jurgen Klopp did warn his side would suffer. What he didn’t say was that they would make their entire fanbase suffer too.

Echoing the thunderstorms that raged around this tiny little industrial town that stands out like a sore in the middle of the beautiful Spanish eastern peninsula, another blew through this outdated, yet seething old stadium.

And it did because of what seemed a rare mistake from Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp. As calls go, they don’t get bigger than leaving your captain on the bench for a European semi final in a seething bear pit of a stadium.

It seems almost unimaginable to say this after a season of inspired management and immaculate decision-making, but Klopp definitely got that call spectacularly wrong here in El Madrigal.

He knew a tight ground produces a noise, and intimidating atmosphere beyond its size, where leadership is required…and that was missing in the absence of Jordan Henderson.

For an hour, the shock was seismic, early trepidation on the faces of the Liverpool players, turned to real fear after that early Villarreal goal which so stunned them. When it went in - far too easily - they were rudderless.

Yet Klopp is perhaps Liverpool’s greatest leader of all, and as his side trudged in at half time, their two goal lead from the first leg