Curtis Davies looked up and saw Adam Lallana trying to bamboozle him, the blistering pace of Sadio Mane threatening chaos, Roberto Firmino ghosting into space and Philippe Coutinho offering brush strokes of genius.
The Hull captain peered to Liverpool’s left where James Milner was marauding up and down the wing. Over to the right to find Nathaniel Clyne charging forward relentlessly and then he spotted Georginio Wijnaldum linking everything together.
Only a few minutes had elapsed, but the template for another rampant Liverpool success was set.
Jurgen Klopp’s golden rule for his players is “be an option or be protection” and when the team comes together like this, swarming relentlessly over hapless opponents, the football is scintillating.