A relegation was confirmed, a title was deferred and somewhere in the middle of it all was Trent Alexander-Arnold, neither in nor out and forever giving us reasons to doubt what we know.
Because what comes next for him? Is he off? The conventional wisdom sides with the whispers and the whispers talk about Real Madrid.
But then he had his moment, in that way you may have predicted, whereby he stepped off the bench for his first game in five weeks and required five minutes to win it.
What followed was the interesting bit – first he burst into a sprint for the corner, then he whipped off his shirt, and finally he stood, arms outstretched and screaming, for the Liverpool fans.