A right shoulder and a right thigh. They may not be enough to turn around this season for Liverpool but they turned around this game and for now that feels like more than enough.
With 17 minutes remaining at a rather resigned feeling Anfield, Liverpool did not look winning this game. Darwin Nunez had just seen a goal ruled out by VAR and as Manchester United rallied down the road at Old Trafford, Sunday’s meeting here with the old enemy on was starting to feel like one of those behind the sofa occasions fpr the home support.
But when Trent Alexander-Arnold delivered a free-kick from the left in the 73rd minute, Virgil van Dijk rose to meet it.