There really aren’t any ‘bad’ results during Liverpool’s league season IMO. I don’t see failing to beat Citeh as any big deal. The back to back 1-1 draws at home against Leicester and at a West Ham are really the only disappointing results that I see and over 38 games realistically those are going to happen once in a while.
Citeh on the other hand has losses against Newcastle, Leicester, and Palace, which are all bad results IMO. But they got wins away against big six teams that Liverpool only drew against and that was really the difference IMO. I don’t see how Liverpool can play too much better in the league honestly.
Interestingly if Liverpool win the Champions League each of those two teams will have won the trophy the other really wanted to win the most by far.