It’s a toss of the coin. Heads or tails.
The double-faced side of the past week is certainly easy to see when checking their local media.
Mid-morning on Thursday and the Liverpool Echo’s online page dedicated to the red men had some celebratory photos and upbeat headlines and stories.
And rightly so after a 4-0 Champions League win which, if anything, flattered their opponents Galatasaray
But the inquests and criticisms of the previous days were still there, too.
What has gone wrong? Arne Slot's future. Fans leaving Anfield early.
Dominik Szoboszlai and Liverpool colleagues celebrate his goal against Galatasaray (Image: Peter Byrne/PA Wire)
There were not enough articles from the Galatasaray game to force out all the pieces uploaded in the days after the concession of two points to Spurs.
So which Liverpool side do we see from 12.30pm on Saturday when the outgoing champions head to the Amex to face Albion?
There should be no room for suggestions they have taken their feet off the gas as there were when the Seagulls came from behind for a thrilling 3-2 win late last season.
Liverpool need points in the league.
The wisdom back in the great Liverpool days of the 1970s and early 1980s was that you did not want to be the team who played them just after they had lost.
But has that changed? Is the modern footballer a bit different?
Do you want to avoid them when they have just been handed a big morale-boost these days?
Or did Galatasaray make life misleadingly easy for them?
“It's a toss of the coin every week which Liverpool team is going to turn up,” said their former defender Stephen Warnock, who pops up on different media outlets and on this occasion was talking to BBC’s Match Of The Day.
“The big thing is how are they going to motivate themselves.
“Galatasaray were bang average. It's great they came out and played well.
“The question now is can they do it away at Brighton?
“We've seen them have some great recoveries like this this season btu then they don't follow it up in the next game.”
So there is the challenge. Forget a rainy night at Stoke.
Can you do it the Amex in the 12.30pm slot which has proved a problem in Falmer before.
Remember the lockout season of 2020-21 when Liverpool came to the Amex at that time on a Saturday after Wednesday night European action?
They followed a 2-0 defeat by Atalanta at Anfield by drawing 1-1 as Pascal Gross fired home a VAR-influenced stoppage-time penalty.
Jurgen Klopp laughed sarcastically at the decision, which the fouled Danny Welbeck described as “soft”, and then took on BT Sports interviewer Des Kelly over various subjects, including the scheduling.
Klopp said: “I don’t know how often I have to say it – you picked the 12.30pm kick-off. You.
“Not you personally. I’m not having a go at the broadcaster, I’m just saying how it is. It is really dangerous for the players.”
Klopp was often a bad loser (or, on that occasion, drawer) but he could be magnanimous, such as when he applauded and doffed his cap to Roberto De Zerbi’s side who beat his men 3-0.
Slot was complimentary to Albion after they beat his men 3-2 last May.
Now they head back for a 12.30pm game and we wait to hear what observations the current boss will have about it.
He might use scheduling as an excuse but the style of football won’t be.
We know Slot enjoys playing against Albion’s approach rather than some of the Eighties Disco stuff we see around the Prem these days.
After beating Galatasaray, Slot admitted the key was now to maintain their standards until the end of the season.
He said: “We have to try to find consistency – although I can already spoil or disappoint people as this performance is impossible to copy one more time because (it was) 5.02 xG on a Champions League night, conceding 0.18 xG.”
So a good time for Albion to get them – and I don’t mean 12.30pm – or the wrong moment?
It is a good time – but because of what Fabian Hurzeler’s side are doing themselves. Not because of Liverpool.
Albion have twice lost at Anfield this season (Image: Richard Parkes)
Three wins from four, arguably five solid Prem performances since losing to Crystal Palace.
A restored bond between team and fans, just a slight scent of Europe.
A settled side and an XI which might remain unchanged from the win at Sunderland but with players coming back to the squad.
And a thought that what is now missing is a heavyweight victim to go alongside Brentford, Nottingham Forest, Sunderland and, earlier in 2026, Burnley.
We have not really had one of those 'beating the establishment' occasions which the Amex does so well since very early in the season, against Manchester City.
And those are the games which stand out in the memory when you think back of the stadium at its best.
Games against Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea. That first major scalp against Arsenal.
Albion’s stop-start season has started moving forward and needs a late season stand-out moment.
And there is one more factor which should power the home side.
In a season when Liverpool have wobbled more than champions should, they have dismissed their Sussex opponents fairly comfortably in both league and cup at Anfield.
Albion have bucked the trend in that respect and not in a good way.
They would love to put that right and, be it 12.30pm, 3pm or 5.30pm, this might be the right time after three recent wins and now a clear week.
Liverpool’s mood has changed a lot since last Sunday but the transformation might be fragile.
The coin still has two sides. Albion and the Amex will fancy their own Gala occasion.