Arne Slot has been without the majority of his first-team squad over the past week and a half(Image: Getty Images)

Somewhat unfathomably, it is still only 11 days since Liverpool's last-gasp defeat at Chelsea.

The circumstances surrounding that Stamford Bridge loss and the international break which has followed has made it feel more like 111, but even if the calendar is telling the truth you can bet that there will have been some important work done at the AXA Training Centre in the past week and a half.

While the break will have done him and his players some good, Arne Slot would have been hard at work poring over the circumstances of the three successive defeats which have suddenly turned this Liverpool season into one of introspection, with questions being asked of almost everyone including the Dutchman himself.

The full answers to those questions should be found in the weeks to come, but as Slot cast his eye around Kirkby in recent days he might just have seen a few handy solutions to some of his most pressing issues.