Jurgen Klopp pulled a face on Friday lunchtime when he was presented with a question about FA Cup replays and their worth in the modern game.
Liverpool’s manager would banish them immediately, if he had the chance, but on reflection he must surely be relieved they remain part of the calendar. Without them, he would be staring at a crisis and his team’s defence of this trophy would be over already.
There were many things during this helter-skelter 90 minutes that Klopp would have wanted to see, such as Darwin Nunez answering his critics with a much-needed goal and an important contribution from his latest signing Coady Gakpo.