Though James Tarkowski’s midweek equaliser will have stung for reasons that have nothing to do with trophy accumulation, Liverpool have time and scope to ride out a slip in form, before rediscovering something better in time for the Premier League run-in and Champions League knockouts.
However he also hopes his team take the anger and aggression he felt then and they’re feeling now into today; Wolves are also fighting for something, he adds, and the league is such that every you need a reaction in every game.
But given Arne Slot’s men are in the last 16 of the Champions League, in the final of the League Cup, and sat four points clear at the top of the league with a game in hand, does it even matter?.
Otherwise, I don’t suppose Nunez will be gratified to see Jota preferred to him – real talk, both are great subs but less good from the start – but it’s pretty hard for anyone to complain about anything the Liverpool manager does, given where they are.
He’ll fancy the occasion, he’ll really fancy the right side of Liverpool’s defence, and if his side return home with a result, maybe, just maybe, a blip could intensify into something altogether more arresting.
