Inside the Liverpool dressing room, 8.50pm.

As Anfield dreamed what, at that stage, was still an unlikely dream, Jordan Henderson lay flat out on the treatment table, his right knee throbbing following a collision 15 minutes earlier with Barcelona’s Clément Lenglet.

Liverpool’s physios got to work, assessing the blow and manipulating the joint, while Jürgen Klopp waited anxiously for an update, aware that Andrew Robertson was already in the process of being substituted with an injury.

Henderson grimaced, munched his way through some tablets and took up the offer of a painkilling injection to ease the piercing pain.

“I said [to the physios]: ‘Just give us everything’,” Henderson recalled. After all, there was a job to finish.

Outside the Liverpool dressing room, 11.30pm.