There is a club in the north-west, recent champions of both England and Europe, who have famously been riven by injuries this season. It isn’t Liverpool. Not because their squad has remained fully fit but because, as Arne Slot has noted more than once, “nobody spoke about it”.
And if that isn’t strictly true, Liverpool’s injury problems have been camouflaged by results. It is harder to argue they are a problem when they are unbeaten in 19 games and boast the Champions League’s only 100 percent record. Or, indeed, when understudies have delivered the displays Caoimhin Kelleher and Conor Bradley did against Real Madrid.
