Liverpool are taking a one-goal lead to Anfield after an extraordinary smash-and-grab victory over PSG, thanks to the best goalkeeper in the world.

19 games into the season we claimed that Liverpool were yet to beat a Proper Team and wouldn’t put any of the 15 sides they’ve triumphed over before this clash with Paris Saint-Germain in that category, with the Reds’ walk to the Premier League title duping us all into thinking they may enjoy a similar cruise to the Champions League gong. They’ve beaten a Proper Team now but this was about as far from a cruise as you’re ever likely to see.

It’s over three months since PSG last tasted defeat, against Bayern Munich in the Champions League, and before the visit of Liverpool they had won ten games on the bounce in all competitions, scoring four or more goals in six of those games, with two of them – including the second leg of their Champions League play-off against Brest – ending 7-0.

The inevitable confidence imbued by such a run came oozing from the pores of each and every one of them, and having faced nothing like it this season, a Liverpool side dominant to the point of apathy back home were made to look meek and impotent by not just a Proper Team but a vastly superior one.

When the supposedly indomitable Virgil van Dijk is misplacing simple passes and making inexplicable decisions like trying to play Ousmane Dembele offside when unable to do so without the aid of rocket skates, you know the feathers have been thoroughly ruffled.