Jurgen Klopp was unlikely to admit it after his side’s 5-1 win at Brighton, but when it came to the threadbare Liverpool defence at the Amex Stadium he got away with it.
For all that the club’s moneymen will be grateful the manager and his free-scoring team kept the volume of calls for defensive reinforcements in the January transfer window low, the set up on Saturday was no solution to the team’s undoubted weakness.
Klopp lost Joel Matip for up to a month with a thigh injury in the build-up to the game, and with Joe Gomez ill and Ragnar Klavan only well enough for the bench, fans must have feared the worst.