SLOT HAS ALEX FACTOR

THAT Arne Slot's name was reverberating around the London Stadium as the game reached full-time here felt significant.

- BY PAUL GORST

debates around his suitability for the job just yet but the Reds have at least stopped the bleeding.

With a poor run of nine defeats in the previous 12 firmly behind them, this deserved victory provided a brief glimpse into the future at Anfield - a world where Florian Wirtz loads the bullets and Alexander Isak fires the gun.

After nearly three months, fans finally got to see a snapshot of what they are both capable of in the same team.

This was Wirtz’s best performance in the Premier League by some distance on a day when the game was pretty much won by Isak’s second-half opener.