Liverpool regained the lead on the stroke of half-time when Szoboszlai caught out Brighton keeper Bart Verbruggen with a swerving strike from wide on the right flank that whistled into the top corner. Szoboszlai's bemused grin as he celebrated suggested the midfielder's effort might have been a miscued cross rather than a shot.

In the end, though, Brighton played like a side that still had something to play for, and that was the difference in an eventual 3-2 defeat. “I can’t say we’re very sad, but of course we didn’t come here to lose,