Saka and Martinelli torment Liverpool to hint at wider change at the top

Liverpool looked like a team of moments and skulking stars, the kind of team they once devoured as an aperitif.

MORE PLEASE: Liverpool's Jordan Henderson with teammates Mohamed Salah and Trent Alexander-Arnold at the Emirates

It seemed fitting that the last significant act of this game should be Gabriel Martinelli veering and skittering about in the far left-hand corner of the pitch, still with that maniacal, ferrety energy in his feet, still picking away furiously at the Liverpool defence.

He was relentless at the Emirates Stadium, a pest, a nag, a constant creative press, in a game that saw him torture not just one but two Liverpool right-backs, Trent Alexander-Arnold having left the field at the break after a collision in the first half.