Jurgen Klopp came into Sunday's Premier League meeting with Fulham demanding that his Liverpool side make sure Anfield is a «nightmare» for visiting teams.
Marco Silva may very well wake up in a cold sweat after his team's 4-3 loss but it was hardly a performance that Liverpool's manager would have dreamed of.
For the second weekend in a row, Trent Alexander-Arnold forced Liverpool's first goal of the afternoon with a crisp strike. While his drilled effort into the bottom corner against Manchester City came at the end of a fluid move from open play, the defender broke the deadlock at Anfield with a brilliant free kick.
Before placing a finger to his lips in celebration, Alexander-Arnold's face betrayed the satisfaction he earned from a sensational set piece.
Same, Trent, same pic.twitter.com/sk4sFpX0Zp
Sunday's match was Alexander-Arnold's second consecutive Premier League outing after agreeing to a sponsorship deal with Adidas, donning the same predator boots that the likes of David Beckham and Zinedine Zidane made famous.
Trent in Adidas boots might challenge for the Golden Boot.
Sheer class from Alexander-Arnold. Those preds are doing the business.
What Alexander-Arnold didn't realise at the time was that his first strike of the afternoon would go down as a Bernd Leno own goal after the ball skidded off the crossbar and on to the goalkeeper before hitting the back of the net.
Apparently Trent's free kick may be officially recorded as an own goal for Leno, with the ball bouncing off his back before entering the net.
Nonsense, that's Trent's goal ALL DAY LONG <a href=«https://twitter.com/hashtag/LFC?src=hash&ref_src=» https:>#LFC
Barely five first-half minutes had elapsed before Alexander-Arnold's former teammate Harry Wilson
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