The top five Adam Lallana moments as we say goodbye
2 – Liverpool delirium at Carrow Road
Klopp’s opening season produced an oxymoronic spread of results – we’ll never forget the crazy night against Dortmund, or the 6-0 drubbing of Villa – and definitely not this moment at Carrow Road.
To give some context – Norwich needed to win to stretch away from relegation, but were in trouble from the off. Roberto Firmino’s scuffed effort dribbled past the ‘keeper, and Liverpool led early.
The Canaries responded magnificently though.
Diermiurci Mbokani, who’d featured for Standard Liege against the Reds in a Champions League qualifier back in 2009, managed a cheeky backheel through Simon Mignolet to equalise.
New signing Steven Naismith, formerly of Everton, immediately endeared himself to the Norwich faithful with a wonderful finish – and Wes Hoolahan would convert a penalty after 54 minutes after a silly foul from Alberto Moreno.
Jordan Henderson would pull one back less than 90 seconds later though, and Lallana would chip into the path of Roberto Firmino as Liverpool levelled up just past the hour mark.
James Milner took advantage of a backpass from Russell Martin to make it 4-3 with 15 to go, but with seconds dying, a goal from the most unlikely source seemed to have saved Norwich a point.
Sebastian Bassong let fly from long range to equalise – even Delia Smith was celebrating.
But with Steven Caulker on at centre forward, and Liverpool in a desperate vein, Adam Lallana struck the ball – scuffed it in fact – into the ground.
Space, time, motion. It all seemed to freeze. But just a millisecond later a groan echoed across Carrow Road – Liverpool had only gone and nicked it.
This gave platform to Klopp breaking his glasses and the legend of Steven Caulker going down in Reds’ folklore. So what possibly could beat this?