There will be a point in the coming days when Jordan Henderson finds himself feeling melancholic, wrestling with the sense that something is missing.
Liverpool’s captain only began to experience it a few years ago but the more he has afternoons like yesterday, the more acute the emptiness becomes.
‘It’s the come down,’ he once explained to Sportsmail. ‘You have this high but then you get withdrawal symptoms. You cross a line and there is huge relief but then you starting thinking to yourself: “I want to do that again.” All it has ever been about here is winning.