Alisson Becker is not the first Liverpool goalkeeper to suffer this way.
Boxing Day 1981 was the day Bruce Grobbelaar handed Manchester City victory at Anfield. The score that day was 3-1 and Grobbelaar’s two errors came at the same end of the ground.
Sadly for Liverpool and their Brazilian goalkeeper, the similarities are likely to end there. Liverpool were in disarray under Bob Paisley that Christmas forty years ago but recovered to win the old First Division title.
This time their race would appear to be run.