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Every goal Liverpool have conceded this season has been from a setpiece (the first against Spurs was a rebound from the wall). But as Tony Barrett points out in The Times, this isn’t because Liverpool are uniquely awful. Almost half of all goals conceded in the premiership are at setpieces (42%), which tells you something about how exciting the Premiership really is.

Simpletons blame Liverpool’s problems at setpieces on zonal marking, although discredit their position by failing to point out the problems with man to man marking. Zonal marking has previously worked very well for Liverpool. Two seasons ago they conceded fewer goals from setpieces than anyone else in the league.

So what is going wrong? What I found was that Liverpool are conceding far more free kicks in dangerous positions than in equivalent games last season.