It was the decisive and most contentious moment in the game, but one that the introduction next season of a video assistant referee would not have changed.

Mohamed Salah was impeded inside the penalty area by Pascal Gross and got up to score emphatically after referee Kevin Friend had correctly awarded a foul.

Yet what happened next? Sustained booing of Salah amid the suggestion that he had dived. Arsenal centre-back Sokratis was similarly outraged when Salah won a penalty at Anfield, prompting Virgil van Dijk to intervene directly on behalf of his team-mate.

The video evidence here once again favoured Salah and Liverpool are clearly becoming irritated by how their star striker’s reputation is being questioned. “Every time it happens, we go back, everyone looks at the video, and you go, ‘well, it’s not a dive’,” said full-back Andrew Robertson. “He is not that sort of player, so how many times is it going to happen?

“I was at the edge of the box and it was a stonewaller. If people are starting to say Mo has gone down easily, it’s not fair. The one against Arsenal, especially, he got clipped three times. They still appealed. It’s a bit of desperation.”