Back on transfer deadline day in September, Marc Guehi would have been rubbing his hands at the prospect of playing in this fixture. But he wouldn’t have envisaged having his every touch roundly jeered by the Liverpool crowd from the very first whistle.

That, though, was the inevitable consequence of not waiting for the Reds to renew their interest having seen his Anfield move collapse at the last minute, and instead accepting the challenge to answer Manchester City’s centre-back crisis during the January window.

There’s a reason Guehi was so heavily courted during the last 12 months and that was evident here when ignoring the boos with a fine display encapsulated by two important blocks in either half.

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The first saw him shut down a potential opening for Mohamed Salah, while the second prevented Gianluigi Donnarumma from having to save Florian Wirtz’s goalbound effort.

But Anfield was given real reason to be irked by...