There were glum faces everywhere you looked. Heads were shaking, curses were muttered but the undeniable emotion at the final whistle was disappointment – and nobody illustrated it more than Europe's current number one player.
The man for whom that title belongs is Mohamed Salah. Liverpool's Egyptian King scurried to the tunnel as Anfield caught its breath, consumed in thoughts about how his team had won a quite magnificent game of football twice, only to leave with a point.
This is Salah in a nutshell. At Brentford eight days earlier, he had reached 100 League goals for the club in third quickest time but his team-mates were conscious about going near him in the dressing room afterwards as he had squandered two gilt-edged chances to win the game.