Liverpool racked up an 11th home win in a seven-goal thriller with Fulham.

Trent Alexander-Arnold opened the scoring on 20 minutes with a sublime dipping free kick after Dominik Szoboszlai was fouled 20 yards from goal.

Harry Wilson soon levelled against his old club by pouncing at the far post to send a shot squirming through Caoimhin Kelleher’s legs in front of The Kop.

Alexis Mac Allister restored the balance of power late in the first half through a stunning half-volley to score his first goal for the club from all of 27 yards.

The visitors produced a second equaliser which was given after a lengthy VAR review after Kenny Tete had bundled the ball home from close range.

They threatened to compound the Reds’ misery in the final 10 minutes as Bobby De Cordova-Reid headed home comfortably from Tom Cairney’s cross.

But Jurgen Klopp’s side rallied with two late goals in as many minutes through more stunning efforts from Wataru Endo and Alexander-Arnold’s second.

Here were the key talking points from Anfield:

Late show keeps title dream alive

As the clock ticked down on Sunday, Liverpool faced a potential reckoning.

Not since a Champions League humbling by Real Madrid, some ten months and 16 games ago, had Jurgen Klopp’s side tasted defeat on home soil.

Records are there to be broken and the Reds were in real danger of not only losing theirs but also a footing in this season’s Premier League title race.

Marco Silva appeared set to join his Everton successor Carlo Ancelotti in becoming only the second opposing manager to win at Anfield in 2023.

But the status quo in L4 remains unchanged courtesy of an 11th unbeaten outing of the season that had all the ingredients of a modern top-flight classic.

That Klopp’s depleted and deflated charges were able to rally twice in as many minutes to deny Fulham a memorable victory bordered on miraculous.

When all is said and done in May, it may prove to be a watershed moment.

Case for Klopp’s defence weakens

At times against Fulham, the Anfield crowd must have sensed deja vu.

Between the glut of goals and haphazard defending, Liverpool seemed to have turned back the clock to Brendan Rodgers’ nearly men of 2013/14.

The latter at least offered a degree of mitigation, with Caoimhin Kelleher and Kostas Tsimikas deputising for Alisson and Andy Robertson respectively.

Still, the makeshift nature of the backline did not absolve alarming failings that saw the Cottagers snatching two first-half goals largely against the run of play.

Harry Wilson’s leveller against his former club was derived from a marauding run by Virgil van Dijk in the build-up that left the defence incredibly stretched.

There was also no excusing the slack marking after the interval when Bobby De Cordova-Reid was alllowed to head home the visitors’ third unchallenged.

Those concerns are set to be heightened after Joel Matip limped out late on while his replacement Ibrahima Konate appeared alarmingly off the pace.

A rare blip, perhaps, but the case for Klopp’s defence is becoming weakened.

Reds host Goal of the Month contest

From time to time, a Liverpool player will hold his own in-game Goal of the Month contest.

Mohamed Salah has been the most recent protagonist while Luis Suarez produced a memorable selection against Norwich City exactly a decade ago.

Rarely, however, has such a volume of breath-taking efforts been produced across the entire team in a fashion as the ones plundered against Fulham.

Alexander-Arnold’s brace was sublime; pinging a free kick from 20 yards in off Bernd Leno before a low drive in front of The Kop to snatch the spoils late on.

Yet the merits of Alexis Mac Allister and Wataru Endo’s maiden strikes in a red shirt will have been debated extensively in various post-match autopsies.

The Argentine’s half-volley from fully 27 yards out was a real collector’s item as he strode into the rasping effort that left Bernd Leno grasping at thin air.

Endo, meanwhile, delivered an impressive curling first-touch finish into the top righthand corner of The Kop’s net just four minutes following his introduction.

A week since one sublimely-executed goal sparked a debate about the greatest goals in Premier League history, Anfield offered its own examples.