Diogo Jota scored Liverpool’s 10,000th goal in a 2-0 win over Midtjylland.
An insipid Champions League group stage meeting sparked into life on 56 minutes when Jota turned the ball home from Trent Alexander-Arnold’s cross.
In stoppage time, substitute Mohamed Salah wrapped up the victory by converting a penalty after he had been fouled by Paulinho in front of the Kop.
Here were the key talking points from Anfield:
Jota grabs the golden goal
Few players can lay claim to a genuine slice of Anfield history after making just eight first-team appearances but Diogo Jota is certainly one of them.
The Portugal international’s second-half strike etched his name into the record books while also continuing a promising start to his fledgling Liverpool career.
Jota’s sign-off in front of The Kop was the 10,000th competitive goal scored in the Reds’ entire history, stretching back to Jock Smith in September 1892.
Credit, however, must also go to the link-up play of Trent Alexander-Arnold and Xherdan Shaqiri which provided an impressive prelude to the opener.
Slotting into a team of such attacking prowess has certainly helped Jota’s acclimatisation to life on Merseyside in these opening weeks of the season.
Being in the right place to own this latest club landmark can only stand him in good stead to achieve a variety of further milestones in the near-future.
Defensive woes again piling up
On a clear yet crisp night, storm clouds still managed to gather for Liverpool.
Fabinho’s withdrawal with a potential hamstring injury threw Rhys Williams to the line of duty against a Midtjylland attack already proving to be dogged.
The youngster fare pretty well with the Dane’s onslaught, helped by centre-back partner Joe Gomez, but the long-term consequences seem less certain.
If Fabinho is sidelined, even in the interim, Jurgen Klopp’s best-laid plans are set to be thrown into chaos given his adeptness as an auxiliary defender.
With Virgil van Dijk’s current lay-off expected to eat into the majority of this season, the last thing Liverpool need is more injuries within their backline.
A surreal European night at Anfield
Anfield comes alive on these famous European nights. Or at least it did.
The last time supporters packed into this stadium little over seven months ago, it was for reasons which appear more wrong than right in hindsight.
More than 50,000 people witnessed Liverpool surrender their Champions League crown to Atletico Madrid that night but it was largely immaterial.
Continental opponents often relish playing in front of the Anfield crowd when a white-hot atmosphere warms even the chilliest air above the stadium itself.
But such is the invasive nature of coronavirus on the world that fans will not be returning to games anytime soon and that realisation hit home tonight.
Even behind close doors, The Kop’s banners remain part of the match day experience yet they do not carry the same impact of their usual pageantry.
Salah finally eclipses Rush’s record
Surpassing Ian Rush has been a near-impossible feat for Mohamed Salah.
Eclipsing the Anfield icon’s 47-goal haul from 1983/84 proved a step beyond the Egyptian three seasons ago but some records are finally being broken.
Salah’s stoppage-time penalty finally took him above Rush in Liverpool’s all-time leading European goal scorers with a 21st effort from 37 appearances.
Just two players now sit ahead of the forward on the continental front with Steven Gerrard comfortably clear with an impressive haul of 41 goals.
No Liverpool player has racked up 20 goals in Europe for the Premier League champions since Gerrard bowed out from his boyhood club five years ago.
If Salah keeps up this form, he will soon be overtaking the man that sits immediately beneath the current Rangers manager: a certain Michael Owen.
Not bad for a supposed one-season wonder.