In the third minute of what transpired to be a thoroughly deserved Liverpool victory, Roberto Firmino was played through the inside right channel but for some reason did not shoot.
At the same stage of the second half, Liverpool attacked again – this time with speed and hunger – and Firmino did score, following up a rebound from a fierce Trent Alexander-Arnold shot.
In those two moments we saw the bad and the good of Liverpool’s strange season.
Too often over the last eight months, there has been not enough energy and conviction, not enough of what Jurgen Klopp’s team have been traditionally good at.