If ever there was a line to sum up the feelings after a Premier League win, it came from James Milner after Liverpool’s 27th win from 29 games.

“Get the music on and enjoy it,” he said.

He was not talking about the seemingly inevitable celebrations for claiming the Premier League trophy, victory over Bournemouth edging Jurgen Klopp’s side ever closer.

For Milner, it is a reminder each success must be savoured before the hamster wheels turn and minds shift to the next challenge, in this case the visit of Atletico Madrid on Wednesday.

Milner believes the swiftness to pick holes after three defeats in four games shows Liverpool’s broad brilliance is taken for granted. Anyone suffering from the virus of lost perspective - and that reached epidemic levels in the last few weeks - should be prescribed 10 minutes with Liverpool’s vice-captain.

“It is not a normal thing to win the amount of games we have won. As soon as you drop points, away in a Premier League game... that is normal,” he said.

“Those are the standards we have set, so when it happens to us all hell breaks loose.

“It is not easy to win Premier League games. I have been there. I have been relegated and you think it is just an impossible task to win a game of football. You have to remember how hard it is and how competitive the Premier League is. When things have gone so well people think it is easy. It is not.

“People think, 'Oh they are going to win again, the title is done'.

“No one gives you it. You have to win those games. You don’t go through a season without not playing well. It happens to everyone. It’s the same in every sport. No sportsman can go a four-year cycle to the Olympics and be at the top.

“They try to peak. There is always going to be a (difficult) spell and it is how you deal with it.”

Milner’s reassuring presence was never more obvious on Saturday than when Liverpool were a few minutes from their hysteria-killing three points.