Liverpool’s midfield have veered from the maligned to the magnificent. Some of the issues in Andoni Iraola’s start to life at Anfield have come in the centre of the park, but some of the highlights have been provided by the men deployed there.
Dominik Szoboszlai added to his compendium of glorious goals on Wednesday, a half-volley from 30 yards against Tottenham. “I was thinking, ‘why not?’” he said, with a certain understatement. “So I just took a shot and hit it quite well.”