Just when Liverpool seemed in danger of blowing the chance to have a Premier League title party at Anfield next Sunday, Trent Alexander-Arnold — the player on the verge of joining Real Madrid this summer — stepped up to break Leicester’s resistance.

It may have resulted in an anticlimactic end of sorts to the Premier League title race, though their surge to the top was not necessarily easy to predict at the start of the campaign. It was unclear how quickly Liverpool would transition out of the Jurgen Klopp era,