Jurgen Klopp has compared Liverpool’s struggling start to the season with the centre-back crisis that hampered their defence of the Premier League title.
The Reds are already 11 points off early leaders Arsenal – albeit with a game in hand – having won only two of their first seven league matches, matching their worst such start in a decade.
Klopp’s side have been almost unrecognisable to the team that came close to an unprecedented quadruple last campaign.
