The Premier League weekend of action was rounded off last night by a return to form for Leicester City and – in many ways – a return to form for Liverpool too.

Whilst much will be made of the reigning champions deciding to turn up after Claudio Ranieri’s sacking and running out 3-1 victors, more will be discussed about just where their opponents go from here.

Jurgen Klopp’s men had been on a training camp, they’d had two weeks to get ready for this one and, indeed, the top-four chase that looks set to leave them behind now.

They looked slow, jaded in fact, and you could just sense from the opening five minutes that this was going to be a performance similar to those that have plagued the Reds’ season up until now.

The pressing was off, the passing was wayward and the impetus was all with the hosts, and Adam Lallana’s performance summed it up in a wretched nutshell…

As our infographic shows, the ex-Southampton man did very little to help change the way the game was going before being duly hooked in the second half.

He looked to have cracked playing for the Reds earlier on this season but he, like the majority of his team-mates, have gone backwards in 2017 and it’s a trend that is showing no sign of abating.

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