As Virgil van Dijk stood firm in the face of every cross and long pass Burnley delivered, and Fabinho made sure he was first to any loose balls, the old quote from one of Liverpool’s greatest players came to mind.

It was Graeme Souness who said, to paraphrase, “if you want to fight, we’ll outfight you. If you want to play football, we’ll beat you at that, too” and there is plenty about that mantra which applies to the present Liverpool team.

Nothing Burnley attempted in Saturday’s defeat at Turf Moor bordered in any way on the illegal. These are different times to Souness’s era but, equally, their attempts to make life uncomfortable for the visitors barely made an impression on the imperious Van Dijk.