Losses to clubs at the very top are always a potential reality...... Even when we were at it under Poch we still lost around half of them.
The bar (albeit a limbo rather than a high jump) set last season constituted appalling results and performances like Ipswich (H), Lester (H), Palace (H), Fulham (A), Wolves (A) and Rangers (A), Tamworth (A)..... 15 league losses in total to teams not in the so-called big 6.
Losing to a strong Liverpool (whom some pundits are now zealously calling "the best team in Europe") won't suddenly vindicate Ange's part in last season's dreadful league finish.