Owner Evangelos Marinakis was in the City Ground stands as Nottingham Forest made Liverpool work hard for their FA Cup quarter-final victory.
And head coach Steve Cooper was pleased to have the Greek businessman watching on as his players put in a performance to be proud of. The Reds fought brilliantly against their Premier League opponents, eventually losing 1-0 to a Diogo Jota goal in the second half.
But it could have been so very different had the hosts put away some good chances. Philip Zinckernagel spurned the best one, when he fired wide from a Brennan Johnson cross - immediately before the visitors bagged what proved to be the winner.