It was such an extraordinary moment for a player who seemed to have been lost by the wayside years ago that you wondered how on earth Daniel Sturridge managed to keep it together and not scream into the night.
The game seemed lost to Liverpool, who had squandered their chances and waved off Mohamed Salah early, when the 29-year-old arrived in an act of blind desperation. It presaged the goal that will live long in the mind's eye: an arcing shot from 30 yards despatched from the left instep which soared above Kepa Arrizabalaga and into the net.