One slip. That’s all it took. One misstep separated these teams. Joao Cancelo failed to trap a long kick from Alisson and, suddenly, what promised to be the greatest goalless draw the Premier League had witnessed wasn’t that at all.
By the end the noise inside Anfield was deafening, Jurgen Klopp had been sent off for raging at a linesman over a foul on Mo Salah not given, and six minutes of injury time were signalled that took the frantic mood up a notch further. The gap at the top, meanwhile, stood at four points.
The greatest beneficiaries here were Arsenal.