Arne Slot's critics would have been busy binning their verdicts which tore apart the Liverpool manager and this sorry title defence.
Cody Gakpo had just scored a 94th-minute goal to surely send the champions on their way to a vital and undeserved win on the road – and the away end was sent into bedlam.
But soon those dissenters were rooting through the bin for their disparaging analysis as Harrison Reed scored one of the goals of 2026 (and we are not just saying that because it came on day four of the year) to condemn Liverpool to another dismal draw.