Liverpool were expected to struggle following the departure of Jurgen Klopp last summer, who led the club to unbelievable success during almost nine years on Merseyside. However, the German's successor,

Federico Chiesa, who has underwhelmed and barely played — and made only a minor tweak to a lineup pretty much molded by Klopp, installing Ryan Gravenberch as the first-choice defensive midfielder and playing Alexis Mac Allister in a slightly deeper role alongside him.