For Liverpool, 10th in the Premier League, this was a fixture pitched somewhere between juddering apprehension and pure terror. But then we have been here before with this Liverpool, a club forever turning the corner only to encounter another corner. Those weird 10-minute periods when Liverpool simply forget to pass the ball, as if under some malign collective spell. Perhaps the reason Liverpool start so badly is that they have lost the ability to self-motivate. Suddenly Liverpool feel charmed by their escape.
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