If Arne Slot is to find salvation at Liverpool, it won't be the FA Cup that provides it.

In fact, rather than provide Slot's paymasters with evidence that something special could still be retrieved from an increasingly grotesque campaign, this was a day that only emboldened the swelling numbers who believe a change in the dugout is required to fix this mess.

A 4-0 dismantling by Pep Guardiola's Manchester City inflicts the heaviest defeat of his Liverpool tenure on Slot and the Reds are now sifting through the wreckage in search of positives ahead of another quarter-final on Wednesday night, against Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League.

Slot's players received a heavy beating from the newly-crowned Carabao Cup holders, leaving them with nothing to cling to as City secured another trip to Wembley in what may yet be Guardiola's final campaign.

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If this is to be the final fixture overseen by Guardiola between these...