Liverpool overcame an early scare to edge out Tottenham in a 2-1 victory.
Harry Kane put the visitors ahead after barely a minute’s play when he nodded home a rebound from a Son Heung-min shot which rattled the crossbar.
But the Reds struck back after the interval when Jordan Henderson pounced on a loose ball in the Kop penalty area to rifle a low effort past Paulo Gazzaniga.
Jurgen Klopp’s side finally took the lead some 15 minutes from time when Mohamed Salah converted a penalty after Serge Aurier had fouled Sadio Mane.
Here were the key talking points from Anfield:
Super Fab to the fore
Liverpool’s interchangeable midfield has often been guilty of lacking personality.
In a line-up where defence and attack are equally prominent, Jurgen Klopp is routinely given a selection headache by his side’s largely unsettled midsection.
But Fabinho is increasingly proving to be the one player that the Reds manager simply cannot switch out and proved it once more against Tottenham.
The Brazilian enforcer completed 78 of 91 tackles, made three interceptions and 11 recoveries, created a handful of chances and won all four of his five tackles.
Fabinho endured a slow start to life at Anfield with many questioning why he was not throw in at the deep end following a summer move from Monaco.
Twelve months on, a player dubbed ‘the lighthouse’ is shining like never before.
Full-backs overcome United fluke
Last weekend Manchester United had succeeded where the rest of the Premier League failed in nullifying the key threat posed by Liverpool’s flying full-backs.
Tottenham believed they could follow the Red Devils’ lead in attempting to curb Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson’s creativity on the flanks.
Lightning, however, does not strike twice with the European champions.
Son Heung-min was charged with stopping Alexander-Arnold’s surging runs down the north Londoners’ left-hand side while Robertson fared similarly well.
The West Derby-born defender recorded just one fewer key pass than the eight amassed by Spurs’ team overall during this hard-fought encounter.
Such a return to normal service proved events at Old Trafford were a rare fluke.
Reds still the comeback kings
Resilience is a trait which Liverpool supposedly need to develop to win the title.
Yet they already have it in abundance, as shown by the response to Harry Kane’s first-minute opener which had sharply taken the wind out of the hosts’ sails.
The England captain could not have wished for an easier opportunity to break the deadlock after Dejan Lovren had deflected Son’s shot onto the crossbar.
Except Klopp’s ‘mentality monsters’ have made turning around deficits an artform at Anfield and did so again with the ferocious backing of its partisan support.
Liverpool are yet to lose any of their previous 10 Premier League home games where they conceded the first goal and this result took them to six straight wins.
If anything was learned from last season, it was Klopp’s side will always fight to the finish and, more often than not, end up taking the spoils.
Henderson leads by example
Better than most, Jordan Henderson knows how heavy the Liverpool captaincy weighs.
Replacing Steven Gerrard was no mean feat for the midfielder at a time when he had failed to convinced seasoned match goers of his own individual abilities.
Henderson ended up having the last laugh over the past four-and-a-half years and entering history as a Champions League-winning skipper in the process.
He is also not averse to channelling the spirit of his predecessor by notching a vital goal and subsequently rallying the troops both on and off the pitch.
It may not have been a trademark Gerrard piledriver but Henderson’s instinctive close-range strike delivered Liverpool’s overdue firm footing against Tottenham.
The 29-year-old also could not have picked a better time to record his first league goal at Anfield since December 2015, some 1,414 days ago.