Liverpool really don't look like Liverpool at the moment after Champions League humbling at Napoli - The Warm-Up

THURSDAY'S BIG STORIES That Was Unexpected Ad It's easy to pick on individuals. It may also, to a certain extent, be correct to pick on individuals: James Milner had probably the worst ten minutes of his long career, while Virgil Van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold were only saved from profound embarrassment by whatever Joe Gomez was doing alongside them. And this often gets said as a joke, but we genuinely hadn't noticed Roberto Firmino was playing until he won a corner early in the second half.

Champions League'Work to do' — Klopp needs to 'get confidence up' in Liverpool squad, says Fowler10 HOURS AGO But a team like Liverpool are generally pretty resilient when it comes to individual mistakes. It's a natural consequence of the way they play: sometimes somebody gets left exposed, or they all get caught upfield together, or Alisson tries a Cruyff turn and gets mugged. The possibility of conceding one or two soft, early goals is almost priced into the whole endeavour.

And so, for the Warm-Up's money, the oddest thing wasn't that Liverpool turned up and defended like clowns. They have been known to do that, even at their best. No, the oddest thing was that all the moments you might expect to spark Liverpool back into life, back into themselves, just sputtered out.

Liverpool's defining characteristic over the last few years hasn't been any one player or any one way of playing: it's been their inevitability. However badly things are going, there's a moment, and they click, and then they roll right over the poor saps that thought they were in the game. Last night there were four such moments, by our reckoning.