From the beginning of February, a look at Liverpool’s goals against column would conjure images of an England batting collapse.
On the first day of the second month, there was a yawning gap between first and second in the Premier League but since Liverpool ground out a 2-0 win over Leicester the numbers they have produced defensively have enabled the gap to be bridged.
The sequence – 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 – is the epitome of parsimony. Norwich’s Milot Rashica, on February 19, is the only man to breach.