If an alien descends from above and asks you why you love football so much, be sure to show them the tape of Liverpool’s breathless 2-2 draw with Manchester City on Sunday.
It was a four-star performance from Liverpool to with a four-goal margin of victory in their weekend hammering of Southampton.
Jurgen Klopp, as he tends to do, confounded everyone with his strong team selection against FC Porto on Wednesday, and he was rewarded with a comfortable 2-0 victory.
With Jurgen Klopp deciding to make all eleven changes to his team following the 5-0 thrashing of Manchester United at the weekend, there was plenty of desire and hunger among Liverpool’s second string in the EFL Cup clash with Preston on Wednesday evening.
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Here we go again, once more into the breach….
It seems an eternity ago that Liverpool were finishing the 2020/21 Premier League campaign with eight wins from their final ten games, and that was enough to propel the Reds from the doldrums back into the Champions League places.
So, that’s that then.
Try as they might, Liverpool could not find a way past Real Madrid’s metaphorical white bus and the 0-0 draw at Anfield on Wednesday was enough to dump them out of the Champions League.
They say that a change is as good as a rest, but a rest has worked out pretty well for Liverpool as it goes.
The Reds were in sparkling form as they swept aside Arsenal 3-0 on Saturday evening, and there was a snap and a spark in their play that suggested some time away from domestic duty has served them well.
Now that was more like it.
Trying to predict how Liverpool are going to play from game-to-game is proving to be a fool’s errand right now, and in midweek the Reds once again confounded expectations by comfortably defeating a very handy RB Leipzig outfit in the Champions League.
When you win 7-0 and the manager still isn’t happy then you know you have high expectations to meet.
Even in the midst of watching his Liverpool team lay waste to Crystal Palace, Jurgen Klopp concluded afterwards that he was ‘not over the moon’ with how things went and how they are going.
In some respects, the 2-0 win over FC Midtjylland on Tuesday night in the Champions League went perfectly to plan.
Jurgen Klopp rotated his side, got some important game time into the legs of fringe players while giving the night off to a number of his key stars, and the comfortable victory over the Danish champions was exactly what the doctor ordered.