How did it come to this?
For all the issues the team has had this season - and there have been plenty - Liverpool cannot make excuses for their failure to put the ball in the back of the net.
Indeed, Jurgen Klopp's team has been ravaged by injuries to vital personnel this season, leaving a squad which surged so devastatingly to the Premier League title 12 months ago badly wounded and out of sorts.
Even now the Merseyside giants are back to playing a midfielder, Fabinho, at the heart of defence, while alongside him a loanee star, Ozan Kabak, is desperately trying to learn the tricks of the trade in the English top flight to secure a permanent switch.