Rampant, ruthless and ready to take on mission (seemingly) impossible.
When you’re off in pursuit of arguably the most formidable outfit in Premier League history, it helps to have a good record against your immediate opponents - and an under-performing referee.
Liverpool’s record against Crystal Palace is excellent with wins now in each of their last nine meetings. Kevin Friend's display here - and that of VAR Craig Pawson - was shambolic. More of that later.
At the top the gap between Jurgen Klopp's men and Manchester City is now down to nine points. The chase now will be fascinating.
Because much as we’d all love to see an eventual title race, the truth is that Liverpool simply have to keep winning and hope.
Hope they can take all three points at the Etihad in April and hope City suffer more days like Saturday at Southampton.
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In the meantime, that familiar feeling descended on Selhurst Park after just eight minutes. Virgil van Dijk headed the Reds in front from Andy Robertson’s corner.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain added a 32nd-minute second from another Robertson assist - Leighton Baines is the only defender to have set up more goals in Premier League history.
It has to be said that Roberto Firmino, who rose to try and head Robertson's cross, surely became active at that point and was offside. Instead Friend and Pawson carried on regardless.
So that was that in terms of whether Liverpool would cope with Mo Salah and Sadio Mane away at the AFCON.
While the serial thrillers have been away, Liverpool have slaughtered Shrewsbury in the FA Cup Third Round, battered Brentford in the Premier League, eased past Arsenal to reach the Carabao Cup Final and crushed Crystal Palace.
Regrets, yes. They’ll have a few. How on earth did they not beat hapless Spurs, inconsistent Leicester and a Chelsea team against whom Liverpool were 2-0 up after 26 minutes?
The answer was here for all to see. Up top Liverpool were terrific. At the back they were casual, sloppy and skipper Jordan Henderson appeared to let his team-mates know about it shortly before the break.
Misplaced passes and unforced errors allowed Patrick Vieira’s men so many gifts they could easily have grabbed at least a point.
Michael Olise snapped up a loose ball from Joel Matip shortly before the break but allowed Alisson to save when the Brazilian should have had no chance.
Ditto Jean-Philippe Mateta, minutes later, after he was put through by Olise.
Conor Gallagher flashed a header wide from Olise’s cross a minute into the second half and Alisson then palmed out a back-heel from Odsonne Edouard. Again, Olise was involved.
Then, goal. Schlupp threaded the ball through for Mateta, the Frenchman rolled it to Edouard and Alisson simply threw his hands up in the air, realising he had no chance.
Joachim Anderson then curled an effort agonisingly wide and Olise, easily the Man of the Match, almost lobbed Alisson with the Brazilian smashing into the post as he pushed the ball clear.
In the end it was Friend who sealed it, handing Liverpool a highly-fortuitous penalty.
Diogo Jota ran into keeper Vincente Guaita with a minute left. VAR Pawson decided otherwise (they always seem to see what they want to see) and advised Friend to check his monitor.
Once he ran over to the touchline you just knew. Friend pointed to the spot and Fabinho tucked it away.
Liverpool are too good to need that kind of luck but it always comes in handy.
