With four clinically-finished goals, Liverpool took maximum points once again from the reigning Premier League champions.
It is becoming a habit around Anfield: this defeat of Leicester City meant that over the past nine seasons, Liverpool have won six and drawn three of their home encounters with the previous year’s league winners.
Not that it is a statistic likely to feature high up in the club’s list of distinctions. What the fans would much prefer is, rather than regularly debunking the title holders,
Liverpool were winning the thing themselves. Which is why this freewheeling attacking performance against a defence that was almost unbreachable last term will have sent so many home delighted: there were elements within in it that suggested that at last hope is appearing on the horizon.