Liverpool were humiliated on their last visit to Wolves - but Saturday is the perfect opportunity for certain individuals to show how fortunes have changed
In a season of some spectacular lows, there's one that stands out alarmingly more so than any other for Liverpool.
The loss by a similar scoreline at struggling Wolverhampton Wanderers in early February underlined everything that was wrong about Liverpool last season, from a leaky defence, a lack of aggression, a poor opening - Wolves were 2-0 up inside 20 minutes - through to an underwhelming midfield and a misfiring attack.
"The start is horrible, and then it’s normal, then it’s great," said Klopp afterwards. "If we played that way when it was 0-0, I’d love to see the end result. But at the moment it’s always ‘if, if, if’. I cannot hear it any more, but it’s the situation." Sure, there were some sizeable bumps in the road in the form of a dreadful 1-0 loss at Bournemouth and a sorry 4-1 hammering at champions-elect Manchester City. Those two, though, are Liverpool's only defeats in 22 Premier League games since. There have been six draws and 14 wins, with the points haul in that period of 48 surpassed only by City.
The Wolves defeat was also the last time Cody Gakpo started on the left flank, the Dutchman shifted into a false nine position in the following game where, with one or two notable exceptions, he has been a regular. By contrast, the recent win over Aston Villa was only Darwin Nunez's second start as a centre forward having led the line at Molineux.