A year ago Liverpool and football in general were in a very different place.
Having gone into the 2020/21 campaign as Premier League champions, blowing teams away with what seemed relative ease, the Reds found out success would be markedly different in the season that followed as the injury blows of losing Virgil van Dijk, Joe Gomez and Joel Matip from their defensive line took their toll.
At the turn of the year the Reds' wretched form was creating the very real chance that Champions League football was beyond them.
