Liverpool brushed aside their recent problems on the domestic front as they got back to winning ways in the Champions League on Tuesday night.
The Reds beat RB Leipzig 2-0 in the first leg of their last 16 - played in Budapest due to coronavirus travel restrictions. It ended a run of three consecutive defeats which have effectively put paid to Liverpool hopes of retaining the Premier League title.
Jurgen Klopp's men have been hampered by injuries this term, particularly at the back, with Virgil van Dijk, Joe Gomez and Joel Matip all sidelined. They have conceded 32 goals in 24 league outings in 2020-21 to date - but their defensive record in Europe has remained impressive.
The clean sheet against Leipzig was the team's fifth in this season's Champions League, having shut out Ajax (twice), Midtjylland and Atalanta in the group stage.
In fact, Liverpool have now kept 18 clean sheets in the competition under Klopp (since September 2017). Opta have revealed that is more than any other team during the same period.
Of course, Liverpool have enjoyed great success in the Champions League under Klopp, reaching the final in 2017-18 before losing to Real Madrid.
Then came surely their most memorable Champions League clean sheet as they beat Tottenham 2-0 in the 2018-19 final to lift the trophy.
Meanwhile, goalkeeper Alisson registered his 50th clean sheet for the Reds against Leipzig, in his 114th appearance. Klopp, though, admits Liverpool's problems have not been automatically solved by one result.
"We are not children anymore and it is not that we think we have won that game and everything is fine again," he said. "It's much more important that we play good football again and it is not the first time in the last few weeks.
"I understand and respect that no-one is really happy with the results and that is clear, but the football we played, dominating (Manchester) City in a way that happened not often, the same against Leicester, we should not forget that but (against Leipzig), the result was with us.
"We scored two goals, forced the opponents to make the mistakes that we made in the last few weeks, the boys worked really hard, top individual performances but especially how we worked together and really put it all together because if you watch Leipzig more often you would know their game can look completely different to (Tuesday night).
"They can cause you problems. We saw the lineup and we have no idea what positions they play. With these players on the pitch they could have had six or seven different systems and played them but whatever they tried tonight, we had an answer.
"They had chances, of course, and that is normal but for the majority of the game we had control of it. That is very important because it doesn't happen a lot against Leipzig."
