A late Mohamed Salah double, including a penalty in the last ten minutes of the game, saw the Reds take all three points at Saint Mary’s.
Let’s relive the very best of it, as Liverpool charge headfirst into a tough week.
Mo’s Magic
We run out of superlatives to describe Mo Salah. Outrageous, ridiculous, and cool are three, and my, did he do the business on Sunday afternoon.
Salah’s first saw a superb ball down the channel prodded past McCarthy. Minimal fuss, it just rolls into the net, don’t sweat, this is what I do.
Salah does it again, this time from the penalty spot. I don’t know about you, but that wait for the penalty to be taken was excruciating.
Not for Salah, sauntered up and slotted home. Football miracles are what he deals in.
He deserves to be paid handsomely for that by the Liverpool hierarchy, I understand the trepidation, I was a sceptic myself. But now I am a believer.
Miles still in the tank, and a player of generational talent with a point to prove. Sign him up.
Arne Slot’s Reds can do it when it matters
Can you do it after an arduous international break, where legs are tired and heads are in the week to come, against a team that have been able to practice defending for two weeks.
Can you do it when Manchester City have faltered and Arsenal are still in the chasing pack?
Can you do it without your playmaker, your best finisher, and the best goalie in the world?
According to Arne, yes you can. Liverpool were faltering on 45 and stuck in the south coast mud on 65, yet they pulled it out of the bag.
A new generation stood up and were counted, when the lights were on them, and a half of a nation were willing them to slip up.
This is a good sign. The players seem to be emboldened, strengthened by the fall-off last year, unwilling to let that happen again.
Days like this were rare once upon a time, and this might no longer be Jurgen Klopp’s leaving party, but it is still a brilliant eulogy to him.
Liverpool’s tough week ahead
The Southampton game was crucial, to break Real Madrid down and hold them off, you need every ounce of confidence you can get.
The looming question now for all concerned, is how Liverpool continue in the week to come.
Players like Ryan Gravenberch, who played really well on Sunday will be needed on Wednesday, to be a difference maker from previous meetings.
Liverpool need to up their game from Southampton, find the level again, because very different challenges are on the horizon, and we all know what is at stake.
The players should be bouncing into it now, ready to avenge Jurgen Klopp and finally, finally get one over Real Madrid.