Explained: What happens in Liverpool's dressing room at half-time

It is, Peter Krawietz explains, all about maximising a relatively miniscule amount of time.

“All the manager has in total for his talk is five or six minutes so you try to do it as quick, as short and as precise as possible,” Jürgen Klopp’s assistant informs Liverpoolfc.com.

“You really have to try to come to the point - you can’t make a movie that lasts 10 minutes and says, ‘Look here, look there’! No, it really has to be exactly what we want.”

Krawietz is describing what goes on behind the closed doors of the Reds’ dressing room at half-time and, more specifically, detailing his role in the process.

With support from analysts Harrison Kingston and Mark Leyland, Krawietz spends the first 45…