After the game that had everything, the match that had nothing. The rewards for either side were the same but, as Liverpool and Leeds reconvened 26 days after a remarkable 3-3 draw and a still more memorable post-match interview, there was no six-goal second half. With Mohamed Salah on a different continent, he was not around to accuse anyone of throwing him under the bus.
If a rematch had a historical significance, it lay only in the statistical. In his 84th game in charge, this was Liverpool’s belated first 0-0 draw under Arne Slot; indeed their first since 2023. Not that too many of a Liverpool persuasion will celebrate that.
