Hugo Ekitiké makes another good impression but there is a lot of work for Arne Slot to do | Jonathan Wilson

This was a long way from the controlled Liverpool of last season, with new signing Milos Kerkez in particular struggling against his old team

To take a side who have just won the league and make four major changes cannot be anything but a risk. There will always be at least some process of adaptation, particularly given the slight change of shape the arrival of Florian Wirtz has entailed.

The danger for Liverpool is that they give up points that could prove costly if this is a tight title race. While that transition goes on, results perhaps matter more than performances, so long as the trend of those performances is towards a greater cohesion.

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