It is a slump that is not just shocking, but as Champions, almost unprecedented. Since mid-November, Liverpool have won only seven of 20 matches.
If the reasons have been obvious - 16 different central defensive pairings tells a compelling story of luckless injury - then the focus on Jurgen Klopp has been no less intense, the spotlight so searing, it provoked wild rumours of him walking away at the weekend.
He remains defiant of course, ready for the challenge presented by RB Leipzig in the last 16 of the Champions League, which now becomes a watershed moment in the club’s season…the last chance of a trophy, in a campaign turned upside down in a matter of weeks.
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