Having seen Harvey Elliott's attempt to go under the wall from a promising free-kick situation just moments earlier, Alexander-Arnold showed his younger colleague just exactly how it is really done from a dead-ball, curling over the assembly of Fulham players instead to put Liverpool 1-0 up on the day.

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"Bernd asked me after the game: ‘What kind of goals do you always score against us?’" Klopp said.

Nobody is like Trent.”

It was Alexander-Arnold's 100th goal contribution for Liverpool, which is a remarkable statistic for a player whose primary duties centre around stopping the opposition from scoring.

Few can strike a ball like Alexander-Arnold in the Liverpool squad but his 19 goals have been dwarfed by the sheer weight of numbers in the assists column, which stands at 79 in total.

When rated alongside the full-backs of Europe's top seven leagues, Alexander-Arnold is in the 100th percentile for progressive passes and inside 90% for Expected Assists.

And with Alexander-Arnold back in situ, they have a pursuit of glory that has suddenly become reinvigorated.