It was a month that started with a straightforward enough assignment for a Liverpool team whose ambitions of a treble still burned brightly.
But April is also the damaging period that ends with the sight of Jurgen Klopp and Mohamed Salah at loggerheads on the sidelines of West Ham's London Stadium while the hosts celebrated the equaliser as its most prevailing image. If a week is a long time in politics, try four of them at Liverpool FC.
After seeing off Brighton & Hove Albion at the end of March, April began with a visit from relegation-threatened Sheffield United, a team who pitched up at Anfield having conceded 77 times and were in possession of a minus-50 goal difference at the time.
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The 90 minutes that followed, however, would prove instructive for what would follow across a wretched few weeks that have left the final three games of the campaign meaning little beyond providing Jurgen Klopp with a fitting send-off from an adoring fanbase.
Liverpool's 3-1 win over Chris Wilder's Blades was not one of the 16 times they have conceded the opening goal this term but the nature of Darwin Nunez's bizarre effort at Anfield was in-keeping for a Reds side whose dreams of Premier League glory have been undercut by a misfiring team.
Having taken the lead after Nunez had charged down a clearance from goalkeeper Ivo Grbic the Reds were pegged back by a Conor Bradley own goal and were made to score one of the goals of the campaign, from Alexis Mac Allister, to regain the advantage.
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