Darwin Nunez is rapidly acquiring the hero status Liverpool fans bestowed on another Uruguayan sharp shooter Luis Suarez.
A brilliantly taken double made it a Premier League baptism of fire for new Saints boss Nathan Jones and a comfortable afternoon for Anfield manager Jurgen Klopp, forced to sit in the stand following a one-match touchline ban.
Klopp confessed that he expected the ban once the FA contested the original punishment but not the timing of it.