ʟɪᴠᴇʀᴩᴏᴏʟ ꜰɪɴɪꜱʜᴇᴅ ᴛʜᴇɪʀ ᴜꜱ ᴛᴏᴜʀ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴀ 2-2 ᴅʀᴀᴡ ᴀɢᴀɪɴꜱᴛ ꜱᴩᴏʀᴛɪɴɢ ʟɪꜱʙᴏɴ – ᴀ ʀᴇꜱᴜʟᴛ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴇɴᴀʙʟᴇᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ᴛᴡᴏ ꜱɪᴅᴇꜱ ᴛᴏ ꜱʜᴀʀᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ɢʀᴀɴᴅʟy ɴᴀᴍᴇᴅ ᴡᴇꜱᴛᴇʀɴ ᴜɴɪᴏɴ ᴄᴜᴩ. ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴡᴀꜱ ᴀɴ ɪᴍᴩʀᴏᴠᴇᴅ ᴩᴇʀꜰᴏʀᴍᴀɴᴄᴇ ꜰʀᴏᴍ ᴊᴜʀɢᴇɴ ᴋʟᴏᴩᴩ'ꜱ ꜱɪᴅᴇ ʙᴜᴛ ꜱᴩᴏʀᴛꜱᴍᴀɪʟ ꜱᴀᴡ ꜱᴏᴍᴇ ʀᴏᴜɢʜ ᴇᴅɢᴇꜱ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ꜱᴛɪʟʟ ɴᴇᴇᴅ ꜱᴍᴏᴏᴛʜɪɴɢ.
A break in play after 37 minutes saw Liverpool's players gather by their manager. As they took big gulps of water to recover, Jurgen Klopp began barking at them.
His face was creased with displeasure; his rapid gesticulating was highlighting the error of their ways.
The pointing returned in the 53rd minute when the eye-catching Marcus Wendel got the goal his industry deserved and restored parity for Sporting Lisbon.
Liverpool were better than they had been in Boston on Sunday night, much quicker and sharper, but Klopp knows they are better than this.
For starters, they are giving away cheap goals and another two here took the tally to eight conceded in four games.
There is a huge amount of methodology in how Liverpool play under Klopp and the symmetry that made them so difficult to beat last season is off.
You can guarantee they will be drilled over and over again when the head to Evian, on the edge of Lake Geneva, for a training camp next week.
A contender for pass of the match was the nonchalant moment Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain pointed his toe and swept a ball into the path of Gini Wijnaldum with the outside of his right foot.
Wijnaldum scored and immediately gave his team-mate the thumbs up.
The expectancy when a footballer returns from a long injury is that they will flick on their form like a switch.
The reality, however, dictates there will be peaks and troughs before they find high-quality consistency.
Oxlade-Chamberlain knows he must negotiate some bumps in the road.
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