Due to a pre-planned holiday, unfortunately my ticket for Chelsea had to be passed on and I found myself instead watching the game soaking up the sun of the Canary Islands.
The first thing I thought of when Trent Alexander-Arnold smashed home the first goal was that it was Steven Gerrard-esque.
A young Scouse lad taking a tricky game by the scruff of the neck – it baffled me for several hours exactly which goal of Gerrard’s it was like.
It was Middlesbrough at home in 2008/09, when Gerrard, albeit not from a dead ball situation, smashed a late winner past the goalkeeper and into the Kop net.
That goal on Sunday could be the real turning point for Alexander-Arnold, installing himself as not just the ‘Scouser in the team’, as the song goes, but dictating high-octane football matches.
Meanwhile, throughout last week, several media outlets around the country reported Andy Robertson deleting his social media accounts after a tough few weeks for Scotland and an iffy performance at Napoli.
Let it be noted, a bad game for Robertson is the equivalent of a really good one for most other left-backs in the Premier League.
But on Sunday, with the clock ticking, the 25-year-old intercepted a Chelsea attack and ran the length of the pitch before being fouled, confirming all three points for the Reds.
Any sort of bad performance in Naples was quickly put to bed and it just showed Liverpool and the world watching how much of a gold mine we are actually sitting on with the Scot.
What a full-back pairing this is – perhaps the best in Reds history, if that doesn’t sound too hyperbolic.
Chelsea showed the drive, intensity and forwardness of a team who looked every bit confident of getting back into the game.
It showed a Frank Lampard team who by the end of the season could end up finishing as high as third again.
Most importantly, though, it also showed another Liverpool performance that didn’t let the pressure get to them, which used to happen time and time again away from home.
Before the game, most Liverpool fans saw themselves as clear favourites – five or six years ago, a Reds outfit going to Chelsea as favourites for the win would have been laughed off by many.
With the belief that Jurgen Klopp has installed into his players and the fans, however, this fixture was seen by many as a definite victory in their quest to retain their 100 percent record.
Of the three games in seven days, this was the must-win for Klopp.
By looking at his record and attention towards the Carabao Cup in recent years, he will likely rest a lot of key players at MK Dons, after such a gruelling performance on Sunday.
Liverpool are back to winning ways and it gave our rivals down the East Lancs Road the sense that even a school playground result against Watford did nothing to halt the Reds’ momentum.
Now onto the start of our Carabao Cup campaign, followed by a very tricky game at Bramall Lane on Saturday.
Six out of Six.
