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There were a series of exasperated gasps shortly before the hour-mark in the Anfield crowd on Saturday afternoon.
Alexis Mac Allister could hardly believe his eyes either, with referee Thomas Bramall wasting no time in ensuring the Argentine was the latest Liverpool player to be dismissed on their Anfield bow.
And having been made to weather an early storm on as Andoni Iraola's new-look, revamped Bournemouth side arrived on Merseyside with a new-found swagger, Mac Allister's dismissal had the vast majority of those packed inside Anfield fearing the worst.
All of those apart from fellow home debutant Dominik Szoboszlai, that is. Clearly, the 22-year-old Hungarian saw the early exit of Mac Allister as the perfect opening for him to endear himself to the 51,000 Kopites housed on Anfield Road, many catching a glimpse of the Reds' new £60m signing for the first time since his summer arrival from RB Leipzig.
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Indeed, Szoboszlai stepped up to the mantle immediately after the dismissal of Mac Allister. As had been the case at Stamford Bridge six days earlier, Liverpool's No.8 persisted to harry all of those in Bournemouth blue and continued to be a physical presence but perhaps most impressively was the maturity that the Hungarian displayed in the Reds' unexpected half-hour of need.
Admirably this time around though, rather than wallow in the adversity that they found themselves engulfed in after VAR referees Paul Tierney and Constantine Hatzidakis had decided against overturning Bramall's on-field decision, Jurgen Klopp's side stood strong and immediately regrouped following
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