Bill Shankly was Huddersfield Town’s manager on the last occasion they beat Liverpool and the last player to find the net against the same opponents spent his summers playing county cricket for Leicestershire. The omens had never looked good.
But beyond the resignation that the Premier League’s second tier always feel about games like this, David Wagner could rue the fact that his side failed to beat a Liverpool side who were a shadow of their best. The look on his face told its own story when Steve Mounie blasted high into the stand after opportunity knocked, ten minutes from time.