Published: 21:58, 6 March 2026 | Updated: 22:02, 6 March 2026

After the sorry performance came the apology. If Liverpool’s first visit of the week to the Black Country left them in darkness, the second – eventually – brought some light.

While there is no sense in getting carried away about a comfortable win at Molineux, one that has carried Liverpool into the FA Cup quarter-finals for just the third time in 11 years, the relief of not losing to Wolverhampton twice in 72 hours was palpable for all in Red.

Arne Slot hasn’t had a surfeit of comfortable evenings in this lopsided campaign but how this was welcome, as Liverpool flattened inferior opponents in the clinical, professional manner the teamsheet suggested they would.

How Slot would have been thankful, though, to a man who, six weeks, looked like his days at Liverpool player were over: Andrew Robertson has struggled with his lack of minutes this season, so much so that he was prepared to join Tottenham in January, but he made up for it here.

Robertson is a keen golfer and the left-footed...