Liverpool struggle to create against teams playing a low defensive block and are vulnerable in defence. Too many rivals have realised it and their season has faltered.

Jurgen Klopp has lined his team up as a 4-3-3 in every single Premier League match since he took charge and isn't getting the results he needs. Teams like West Ham just have to stick everyone behind the ball and block the space until, eventually, Klopp's players run out of ideas, over-commit in attack and are hit quickly on the counter.

This weekend though, finally, after only two and a half seasons of coping with this problem, Jurgen Klopp had found a solution. Admittedly, Slaven Bilic's side barely put up a fight, but the simple change of shape might be all Liverpool need to offer a bit of unpredictability.

The new look Liverpool was a 4-4-2, or 4-2-2-2, borrowing heavily from the setup used by Monaco last season on their way to a Ligue 1 title, and a little from Brazil in the 1970s.

It's been difficult for Klopp to fit Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain into his team but here was an obvious way of doing so, while also playing Mo Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane at the same time.