It's December 2015. Jurgen Klopp is still getting to know his Liverpool players, and Divock Origi has just run riot over Virgil van Dijk, netting a hattrick to secure the Reds' advancement to the quarter-finals of the League Cup. Life is great.
The handsome victory - by six goals to one - was in many ways a precursor for what was to come in the Klopp era. The football was slick, the tempo was high, and that 4-3-3 shape that has served the German so admirably over the last 18 months or so was in full effect.
Given all the attacking prowess that was on show, then, it's highly ironic that the most telling glimpse into the crystal ball that evening came from the one black spot on an otherwise perfect night for the Reds - Southampton's opening goal.