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The shock lead of the visitors, from Will Smallbone's goal, resulted in Nunez reacting in a frustrated manner, swiping out at Kyle Walker-Peters for a deserved yellow card that, while checked, was never near the realm of being upgraded to a red by referee Lewis Smith.

It was here, as Nunez involved himself in a centre circle argument with his opponents before being dragged away by Mohamed Salah, that Southampton fans reached for the old terrace anthem favoured by the striker's detractors.

The shushing of the Saints fans in the away end after converting Luis Diaz's cut-back shortly after the restart showed that he felt he had a point to prove to those who had mocked him about 20 minutes earlier.

Luckily football is more than just 45 minutes and you could clearly see, the second half was outstanding, from the first second to the last."

Robertson adds: "I think we actually started the game quite well the first five to 10 minutes, we kind of had them pushed back but the next 35 minutes was nowhere near good enough.

"I thought we were a bit lethargic, looked a bit tired, and they were able to enter the game with a bit of confidence.

Second half was completely different, we brought the energy, we created chances and we deserved to win in the end."

Given how tense the entire place was at half time and how Nunez had toiled in the opening 45 minutes, it would have been no surprise had the Uruguay striker been a victim of the tinkering from Arne Slot during the interval.

“That’s why it wasn’t in my mind to take him off because I was already planning on after these three."

Up to seven goals now for the campaign under Slot, he looks unlikely to better the 18 he secured last time out or even the 15 in his maiden Merseyside term, but in a season that has now seen crucial interventions against Brentford and Southampton in the Premier League - and the assist in Paris on Wednesday - there is still a part to play for a centre-forward who was the subject of interest in the January transfer window