Trent Alexander-Arnold went first, and then Andy Robertson. Jordan Henderson would follow early on Sunday.
Such was the dark, miserable manner of the defeat at Brighton that Liverpool's players were not going to be allowed to get away without saying anything, and so the carefully crafted Instagram statements came.
Just a day earlier Alexander-Arnold had sounded quite bullish when he promised that "there will come a time where things click into place and we will be back to where we have been."
