‘Fab four’ reunited but Liverpool out of tune

Liverpool 0 - West Brom 0: There is an exciting new game at Anfield: Guess the Liverpool team. No one seems to know quite which line-up Jurgen Klopp will go into a game with these days. The only guarantee is that it will not be the team you expected.

Klopp’s selections have raised more than a few eyebrows lately. For Sunday’s Merseyside derby, he decided to put Philippe Coutinho and Roberto Firmino on the bench, and failed to win the match. Against a West Brom side without a win in almost four months, the Liverpool manager decided not only to recall them both, but also to retain Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane.

The decision to use all four of his main attacking players against a team who had gone almost four months without a victory brought to mind the old saying about sledgehammers and walnuts. However, Albion proved rather more durable, while Klopp’s team were surprising edgy.