With a place in all the wrong sorts of history books on the horizon on Wednesday, Liverpool rallied. When Rasmus Kristensen crashed in at the back post to deliver a 26th-minute lead for Eintracht Frankfurt, the scrabbling through the Anfield annals began. Not since 1953 -- a time before Shankly, King Kenny and Stevie G when the club were careening towards the second tier -- had a Liverpool side lost five on the spin. Instead, they ran in five of their own, a robust comeback that, if nothing else, suggests that their confidence is not so fragile that it can be blown off course by the most ordinary of opponents.

That is what Eintracht Frankfurt were. Rather than a high-stakes Champions League clash, this had the feeling of an early round EFL Cup game that Arne Slot was intent on taking seri

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