It is a measure of Jurgen Klopp's assessment of Liverpool's season so far that he interrupted a question in his post-match news conference after the 3-2 win against Nottingham Forest to ask the assembled media a question.
"When was the last time?" he said. "Two wins in a row. Does anybody know?"
The answer was last month, before the international break, which included that 7-0 annihilation of Manchester United.
They also did it in February, when they won at Newcastle immediately after coming out on top in the most recent Merseyside derby.
Evidently, those successes have been shoved to the back of Klopp's mind in the search for solutions to results like the 3-0 defeats at Brighton and Wolves, the loss at Bournemouth and the battering Liverpool took at Manchester City only 21 days ago.