Liverpool learnt Fulham are ready to buck the trend this season. They're not prepared to be the Premier League's whipping boys for yet another campaign in the top flight; they're here to prove they can finally battle with the best of them.
And Liverpool are the best of them. Jurgen Klopp's marvellous Reds narrowly missed out on Premier League and Champions League glory last campaign while Fulham plotted a way back to the promised land.
In the Premier League opener between the two sides on Saturday you'd have seen Aleksandar Mitrovic breaking the deadlock before Fulham were pegged back after the break by Darwin Nunez on his Liverpool debut. You'd have also seen the Whites' Serbian supremo restoring the home side's advantage from the penalty spot and Mohamed Salah ensuring Klopp's men returned to Merseyside with at least something from their travels.
