Liverpool won a game. Diogo Jota scored. There was a time when neither part of that was not news but, remarkably, this was a first victory since the 7-0 evisceration of Manchester United and, for a team who increasingly alternate between hammerings and more harrowing results, it was a similarly sizeable scoreline.
Meanwhile, Jota’s brace were his first strikes in 33 games and over a year. Liverpool won an away game, which has a rarity, given that they had made it into the second half of April with a mere three triumphs on the road in the Premier League. They prevailed on their travels against one of the lesser lights which, as they amassed points tallies in the nineties, tended to be taken for granted.
