A couple of seconds before Morgan Rogers hit the post, as Liverpool were inches from conceding first in an eighth consecutive game and in the opening 10 minutes for a fourth time in that period, a pained voice in the Anfield stands cried: “Where’s the midfield?” One pass had taken Dominik Szoboszlai out of the game. Liverpool looked far too open.
Some 90 minutes later, anguished of Anfield had his answer. There was his midfield. It was Arne Slot’s midfield, too, his title-winning trio. Time after time in recent weeks, Slot has tried to revert to the trio of Ryan Gravenberch, Alexis Mac Allister and Szoboszlai, though his plans have sometimes been interrupted by injury. They can seem Slot’s comfort blanket.
