Kelly Cates

What difference do you see in Liverpool defensively?

Let's take a look at that Carragher-esque goal then from Virgil van Dijk at the right end of the pitch.

He's got a bit of a cold at the moment, Virgil van Dijk.

Look, that's going to come and go for all the players over the winter period.

But what it does raise is questions of trying to keep players fresh, trying to keep them ready when the fixture list is congested.

Liverpool haven't got too bad a run of it, four games in 14 days.

But you want to make sure that he's at peak performance, don't you?

And at the moment, though, defensively, the injuries are mounting up slightly.

There's no Matip, there's no Gomez.

Then you've got Trent Alexander-Arnold, who was watching the game from the stands tonight because he's injured at right back.

They can't afford another player to fall by the wayside there, can they?

We enjoy your pain.

It's fine.

But, Jamie, have they lost anything, Liverpool, in becoming more defensively sound?

Have they lost a little bit of the spark, the excitement?

Klopp said something along those lines, didn't he, about the decisive moments rather than every ball not having to be a killer ball, which is what they were trying to do beforehand.

Let's take a look at Liverpool's festive fixtures compared to those of Manchester City.

City can't now, in the game against Crystal Palace, catch Liverpool, so they will be top on Christmas Day for the significance that that holds.

But over the next...

What, a couple of weeks?