Gravenberch creaking under unprecedented Liverpool workload

The legginess in Liverpool's squad is arguably overplayed, but one man appears to be paying the price for being asked to do more than he ever has in a single season.

There is a myth that has taken hold among Liverpool supporters of late regarding their team’s finishes to recent seasons.

After last year’s late collapse of an injury-ravaged squad cost the Reds Premier League and Europa League success, a consensus has appeared to form that every campaign under Jurgen Klopp finished in a similar way.

And so the thinking goes that the same is bound to happen again this time around; a drained Liverpool will inevitably fall away.

Yet this completely disregards the strong finishes to trophy-winning seasons in 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2021-22, and the fact that even the disastrous 2020-21 and 2022-23 campaigns ended in long winning runs.

Ultimately, it isn’t accurate to assign every dip in results or performances to tiredness, or correct to insist it will come to define the campaign.