If Liverpool didn’t know it already, then they certainly do now. If they want to achieve anything during the rest of this season, they are going to have to fight for it.

We are now at the stage of the campaign where everything is turned into a scrap. Teams are battling for survival at one end of the table and desperate for European qualification and the title itself at the other end.

Nottingham Forest demonstrated that on Sunday when they put everything on the line during a first half in which the Reds were, to be frank, absolutely dreadful. I’m not sure what the teamtalk was but it clearly didn’t have much of an effect.

Liverpool are in a dogfight for that top-five finish with Chelsea and Manchester United. And teams aren’t going to just lie down for Arne Slot’s side.

Hopefully when we play in the Champions League round of 16 next month, the players will realise just how much they want to play in the competition next season. And the easiest way to do that is by finishing...