Is there a good time to face Manchester City? Liverpool have got to believe that this is it if they’re to take anything from the Premier League game of the weekend on Sunday.
The chat on Merseyside has been about starting life without Philippe Coutinho but Liverpool coped fine in their last two games without him, beating Everton in the FA Cup and Burnley in the league before that, stretching a winning run in all competitions to four games and an unbeaten sequence to 17.
They’ve also had more than a week since the derby win, a few days away in the sun to get star man Mohamed Salah fit after a brief lay-off and Virgil van Dijk (9/1 to score at any time) has hit the ground running.