Xabi Alonso had plenty to ponder as he watched his former team Liverpool slip deeper into trouble with a 2-1 defeat at home to Arsenal.
The Reds' season is lurching from one disaster to the next while Alonso, who left Anfield for Real Madrid in the summer in a £32million move, is on the up in Spain. Real are chasing the title and have reached the second round of the Champions League.
As the midfielder took in the loss, he will surely have noted how pedestrian Liverpool have become in the centre of the park since he left for Madrid. The tempo is too slow and opponents are able to get men behind the ball, thwarting the threat of Fernando Torres and Steven Gerrard.
Reds boss Rafael Benitez is fighting for his job and might just look back on the sale of Alonso as the moment when things took a turn for the worse.
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