One of the overriding themes from Liverpool's 2-0 win over Rangers last week was that the jury was still out over whether their crisis was over.
Having emerged unscathed against a relatively poor Rangers outfit, it was the visit to Arsenal, many said, that would offer more conclusive evidence for whether or not Jurgen Klopp's men were really through the worst in terms of their early-season struggles.
A week later, Liverpool find themselves at a similar juncture. Having beaten the Scottish Premiership outfit once more - this time courtesy of a stunning 7-1 win at Ibrox - it's another big game in the Premier League, at home to Manchester City on Sunday, that will offer more clues as to whether a corner has really been turned.
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But there is plenty of encouragement to take from the second-half display in Glasgow, where the Reds scored six times, including a six-minute-and-12-second hat-trick for Mohamed Salah.
Klopp, himself, is fully aware of that too. "We don’t have to make a big thing of it but the best football team in the world right now is coming to Anfield on Sunday," said the Liverpool boss after the game on Wednesday night.
"We will see what we can do. It’s not that we come with a big mouth and say, ‘we are waiting’, not at all. It was for us, for different reasons, incredibly important. Yes 7-1 is a freak result, we know that, but we had that years ago. Now we have to recover, which is important.
"It changes the mood, definitely. It is completely different. We usually drink a beer after away games, but it is that long [since we won away] that I will probably be drunk after one! Yes, it changed the mood. That is good but we all know who we are welcoming on Sunday and this will be a different game. But it’s better to go into the game feeling like we do tonight!"
Visits from Man City in recent years have been hugely instructive as to where the destination of the Premier League title might be heading but there can be little denying that the Reds won't see this game on Sunday in the same light. At the moment, it's merely about restoring confidence and consistency before the World Cup ends top-flight football until after Christmas from mid-November.
Wednesday's win should at least inject a certain level of belief in the squad but it was telling that Klopp, even with his injury list piling up, made some notable changes to his side ahead of the weekend's game.
Diogo Jota's resting was something decided by the medical department, Klopp revealed pre-match, as he joined Thiago Alcantara and Salah on the substitutes' bench next to Andy Robertson, whose return to action is a timely one.
All four might reasonably expect to be involved from the start on Sunday although there's big calls to be made over Darwin Nunez and Roberto Firmino, who have five goals between them in the last two games.
With Luis Diaz sidelined, might Klopp opt to start Jota off the left with Salah, Nunez and Firmino all included, too? That would be a major call and sizable statement about attacking intent against the team the Reds manager refers to as the finest in world football just now.
Despite that exciting proposition, it would concede an extra man in midfield to a team whose strength in that area is perhaps unrivalled in world football at present.
So, of all the selection dilemmas Klopp will wrestle with before the team sheet is handed in on Sunday, the biggest one will be whether to keep faith with the new-look 4-4-2 or name Fabinho to the centre of the park at the expense of one of those four attacking spots.
A relative lack of depth in wide areas means Jota should start - if given a clean bill of health - so should Fabinho return to add some protection to the defence, then it's likely that it's one of either Nunez or Firmino who will miss out.
That, then, becomes its own difficult decision. Firmino has been one of the rare success stories of the season, registering eight goals already and his ability to keep possession and knit the play could be invaluable against City.
On the other hand, Nunez needs minutes to continue his increasingly encouraging adaptation process. It might represent something of a setback if he was to be dropped to the bench as he aims to make it three goals in three games.
If there's much to decide in the final third, it's relatively more straightforward at the back. Ibrahima Konate and Joe Gomez will continue to play their part as Trent Alexander-Arnold and Joel Matip sit it out through injury, although Robertson could come in for Kostas Tsimikas for his first start since the defeat to Napoli on September 7.
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