Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp insists there was never any panic after their thrashing at Aston Villa and Virgil van Dijk's knee injury.
Klopp has been pleased with the maturity in their reaction to the Villa Park debacle.
Further good news could arrive for today's clash at Manchester City with Joel Matip set to return from injury to partner Joe Gomez in the heart of Liverpool's back four.
"Defending isn't usually our problem because we do it as a unit," said Klopp.
"We didn't say after Aston Villa 'Come on, we start again completely about how to defend'.
"We knew what we didn't do right that night and maybe in one or two other games as well and we tried to sort that without overdoing it.
"But when you concede seven goals, it is not that you have to start at nil (the beginning) again.
"We were quite relaxed about it, as relaxed as you can be in how we dealt with it. At the moment we lost, nobody was relaxed, we were all really frustrated about it but then how we responded, it was clear that it's not all bad.
"We realised what was good before but some things needed to be adjusted."
