Liverpool can feel it now. They can sense it. They can almost see it. The Premier League title, only the second in 35 long years, and the first they can properly – post-Covid – celebrate with their fans is in sight.
And those fans played their part here. In that old saying, one so associated with Liverpool as they attack, they almost sucked the ball into the net such was their desire to win this inevitably fiercely-contested Merseyside derby against Everton.
No quarter was given and that tone was set with a violent tackle by James Tarkowski with the Everton captain somehow escaping dismissal early in the first-half in a meeting that is so often pocked by sending offs.