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The title race isn’t just back on… we now have the potential for the third in an epic heavyweight trilogy to match Ali v Frazier.

In beating Leeds so fluently, so comprehensively, on an emotional night here at Anfield, Liverpool not only closed the gap at the top of the Premier League to three points, but they posted notice of a real intent to push the Champions all the way.

If the greatest title fight of all time came three seasons ago when City edged Liverpool out by a single point with both recording record totals, and the rematch was a Red triumph a year later, then this is now shaping up to be the showdown to settle the argument.

Perhaps it most resembles the first three Rocky films if you’re that way inclined, and take the third fight with Apollo Creed to be the best of all.

Liverpool certainly have a touch of the Balboa about them, because they never know when to quit.

Who could possibly have predicted when the gap was 12 points at the end of December, they would be in touching distance before the end of February, even after a month without Mo Salah and Sadio Mane?

Like their impressive team, both are back and both are in imperious form. Salah scored two from the spot here to take his season’s tally to 27, and added another