On paper, Liverpool couldn’t have wished for a better fixture to sandwich their two Champions League ties against Paris Saint-Germain, at home to bottom-of-the-table Southampton.
Of course, football isn’t played on paper and after an opening 45 minutes that earned the Liverpool players the most animated version of Arne Slot so far, it took goals from Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah (twice) to turn things around and move 16 points clear at the top of the Premier League.
