Having had Sunday as a recovery day following the 3-3 draw with Brighton, Jurgen Klopp and his staff didn't have a lot of time to implement a change in Liverpool's system for the visit of Rangers.
Klopp told his players on Monday that the tried-and-trusted 4-3-3 would be taking a backseat for the first-ever competitive meeting between the clubs on Tuesday evening as the German attempted to tweak things and kick-start a spluttering campaign.
A 4-4-2 was how the manager himself described it as he settled on a two-man midfield of Thiago Alcantara and Jordan Henderson, who ably probed, passed and pressed behind an exciting looking attack that featured Diogo Jota, Darwin Nunez, Luis Diaz and Mohamed Salah.
