
A response was required after a European humbling; apparently, nobody passed that message to the Liverpool players.
Plenty can happen on a Saturday night to make people forget what they did or what they witnessed. A Premier League match isn’t supposed to be one of them, but by the time 25,000 or so inside Selhurst Park had left their seats and reached the streets, it’s fair to assume the majority had already erased the previous 90 minutes from their minds.