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[From left to right: Roberto De Zerbi, Jurgen Klopp and Xabi Alonso]

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Today’s top stories:

• Why one potential Klopp successor should be right at the top of Liverpool’s shortlist…

• Assessing Liverpool’s 3-1 defeat against Arsenal…

• And further updates on Roberto De Zerbi, Jurgen Klopp, Virgil van Dijk and more!

Arsenal review

I don’t think Liverpool can have too many complaints with the result, the outcome and the way the game panned out. I think they’ll have some regrets over the manner in which it happened. It was probably a 3-1 game all told but when it went 2-1 it wasn’t that kind of game. It came from nowhere, didn’t it? I wouldn’t have been at all surprised if the game petered out into a 1-1 draw with both sides almost settling for it. But two of the best players in Liverpool’s team combined to produce a once-a-season goal. You don’t see many of those from Alisson Becker, you don’t see many of those from Virgil van Dijk, and you don’t see many of those from Liverpool. For it to come when the game was in the balance will hurt even more because I think Liverpool had felt they had ridden out the worst of the storm.

Jurgen Klopp comforts a distraught Virgil van Dijk post-Arsenal - (Photo by Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)

They’ve seen from prior meetings with Arsenal in the season that when it gets into the last half hour, it’s been Liverpool that have taken control or Arsenal haven’t been able to take control. They might have then fancied their chances of going on and getting a winner but mistakes change games, goals change games. Overall, personally, I don’t think Liverpool can have any grumblings over the result. They might have one or two quibbles over one or two things that happened in the game, but really this was one defined by a mistake but really dominated from the start by Arsenal.