In many ways, Liverpool's 4-0 win over Manchester United showed us exactly what we expected to see.
It was a rapacious, merciless display from Jurgen Klopp's men in the first half and they were as good as they needed to be in the second - a brief period of adjustment to United's formation switch was followed by Sadio Mane's third goal for Liverpool. Any slim hope of prolonged United resistance was snuffed out.
But underneath another emphatic scoreline between these two sides are an array of talking points that could prove pivotal to Liverpool's short-term future and United in the long run.