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They haven't got a song for Luiz Diaz on the Kop yet, but expect one to be incoming imminently.

The Colombian, who arrived from Porto in January, isn’t just audacious - he’s outrageous. He is the sort of footballer that fans dream of joining their club... the sort of player who has songs sung about him long after he departs.

Which is a long-winded way of saying that his introduction alongside Divock Origi was the difference not only in Liverpool's tense 2-0 win against Everton on Sunday, but the sort of stark example that emphasises the gap between these two Merseyside clubs.

Make no mistake, Liverpool were struggling here. It wasn’t quite the losing of heads level of anger against snide tactics that cost them the title in the game against Chelsea in 2014, but it was getting close.

Everton’s - perfectly legitimate, and more pertinently, appropriate - tactics of disrupting and delaying, of trying to stop any form of football contest, worked almost beautifully for an hour.

But then Diaz with his shimmering quality, arrived to transform the mood, and the game. Almost his first touch was a ridiculous back heel control of a long ball, to open up a run which almost produced a goal. That he cost less than £40million shows how immaculate Liverpool’s recruitment now is. They barely make a mistake in the transfer market.

He and Origi, that