By the time Liverpool got back from Birmingham, Arne Slot was already trying to be composed about a game that could really have gone either way. Darwin Nunez could and should have won it, sure, but Liverpool also had to come from behind against Aston Villa. Slot is trying to point to the potential value of Trent Alexander-Arnold’s equaliser.
The emotional swing feels a bit like the title race itself and of course, that is the context everything is now being put into.
