It was 17 minutes into what became a routine 3-0 win at Huddersfield last month when, on reflection, Loris Karius may believe his Liverpool career finally took a definitive upward turn.
The scores were goalless when Philip Billing beat Joe Gomez to a looping Jonas Lossl kick and flicked his header into on-running left-back Chris Lowe. His cross evaded the Joel Matip, scrambling across with Gomez out of position, and was out of reach for the next man, Dejan Lovren.
Laurent Depoitre met it first time, looking to steer his shot low into the bottom right corner.