It's a lovely sunny Thursday morning in Liverpool. In truth, the sun always shines a little brighter after a win.
A cloud has been cast over so much of this season, and one of the biggest frustrations has been that this group of players is too talented to be playing this badly.
It's why, as fans, we tend to seek simple solutions to the problem, because surely we aren't that far away from being a really good football team?
Sack the manager? There is a chance it could help, but it even feels like he's too talented to be coaching this badly, especially based on the evidence of last season. Sign more pace? Almost certainly. Stop playing players out of position? Definitely, but there are some obvious caveats based on form and fitness.
The trouble you have with playing players out of their natural positions is what you lose by them not operating in the areas of the pitch in which they excel.
Dominik Szoboszlai has been chief among them and it feels that surely the time has come to stop playing him as a right-back.
The Hungarian captain is massively talented and a huge part of that is because of the level of versatility he possesses. However, that skillset is needed much more in attack than it could ever be in the full-back area and the Reds' 4-0 win over Galatasaray showed exactly why.
As analysed by Stephen Warnock on Match Of The Day, the combination of Liverpool's flying wing-backs, attacking midfielders and two forwards caused serious problems for their Turkish opponents.
Each component of that had a fantastic night individually, but Szoboszlai is the key that unlocks so much of it and his goal contributions alone dictate that he needs to be closer to the goal and involved in the bulk of the attacking play, rather than existing almost exclusively behind.
The caveats may still be there, but Liverpool must find a solution that isn't so reductive to what they do in an attacking sense.
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