Alexander Isak and Bradley Barcola celebrate after combining for Liverpool’s £248m goal

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A quick sprint, a well-placed pass and an instinctive finish. Bradley Barcola and Alexander Isak will have done this dozens of times in training but here, on a squally Sunday afternoon, this combination secured a little piece of history.

Anfield has witnessed plenty of significant goals down the years but never had this crowd seen one that cost £248m to make. Liverpool invested a near quarter-billion pounds on Barcola and Isak for bigger occasions than a tussle with Brighton and Hove Albion , but this rapid interchange felt like a significant moment.

Liverpool are a work in progress under Andoni Iraola but with each minute of each game you can see signs of things knitting together, and if Barcola and Isak are finding harmony, with Florian Wirtz in behind, then, perhaps, this journey will start to accelerate.

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