Liverpool are far from their best level and yet they have started their title defence with back-to-back wins, their new £79million striker scoring in both and a 16-year-old kid making records.
Not bad, some might say, and that would be true. Scoring winners in the 88th and 99th minute to start the season is the hallmark of champions and, despite being in the embryonic stages of this title race, those goals could be hugely important come May.