But the Premier League did not become the omnipresent cultural force it is by worrying about the big picture. And Liverpool have not, in truth, been entirely serene in the opening weeks of the campaign. They have developed an unhealthy taste for the dramatic, for a start. When Diego Simeone, the Atlético Madrid manager, said his side had “suffered” Anfield after conceding in injury time in the Champions League on Wednesday. That, as The Anfield Wrap pointed out, is how the fans feel, too. “We don’t want to be in that situation,” Virgil Van Dijk said after that game, the fifth in which Liverpool have been forced to find a winner rather later than they would have liked. “We don’t want to have to chase games. We have to be able to kill them .”