“I think it is his most fundamental idea,” says Alberto Moreno, so it’s where we should start with Liverpool. There are other questions you could ask about the Premier League’s most contradictory team. Like, how, in their last six games, could they manage 126 shots yet score just seven times? Or, how could they ship 19 goals in 11 matches across this campaign when, in all but one, they held control?

But let’s stick to Jurgen Klopp’s “fundamental” . Pressing. Few are looking at it in the discussion of Liverpool’s curious start to the season — but they should.

Moreno reiterates there is no change in the key instruction given to players: “The manager has always remained pretty faithful to the way he wants to