Jurgen Klopp may now be describing it as a "useful" result, but there have been plenty of other choice words shared among Liverpool fans since the 7-2 defeat to Aston Villa.
The strange, almost other-worldly feel to that game still seems to linger when you look back at it, and Klopp's fairly calm demeanour both in the immediate aftermath and now, when thoughts are turning back to club action, seems to underline the sheer oddness of it.
But there has been a long-held belief about Liverpool under Klopp that when things go wrong, they can go spectacularly wrong, and the only way to ensure that doesn't happen is to simply be as disciplined as they have been for the past few years.
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