Liverpool travel to Paris on Wednesday with head coach Arne Slot needing to find answers to a multitude of issues to keep their disappointing season alive.

lot's side face a dauting Champions League quarter-final with Paris Saint-Germain, almost 12 months on from being dumped out of the competition on penalties at the last-16 stage by the Parisians, who went on to be crowned European champions for the first time.

A lot has changed in the intervening period for the Reds, who were on the verge of being crowned Premier League champions this time last year in what was Slot's debut campaign in charge at Anfield.

I missed [not just] the fighting spirit but just the willingness to win your duel, to be there first, to make it difficult for either a pass or a cross or a finish. That is something we definitely have to do better on Wednesday.

Exactly a year ago, in fact, Liverpool had just seen their 26-match unbeaten league run come to an end at Fulham, only the...