The Vitality Stadium, Bournemouth just after 3.15pm last Sunday and the home team look set to complete a remarkable victory over Liverpool.
With only minutes remaining and the score at 3-3, Bournemouth striker Benik Afobe moves on to a loose ball and drives it towards goal. Liverpool goalkeeper Loris Karius makes a quite brilliant save, standing squat to divert the ball over the crossbar with his upper arm.
The save was not mentioned in the newspaper reports the next day and does not feature on the highlights packages.
What has, of course, been front and centre of the coverage is the mistake Karius made two minutes later, spilling a low shot to hand Bournemouth victory. Welcome to the life of a goalkeeper.
‘It was my mistake, no doubt about it,’ said Karius. ‘I wanted to catch the ball and didn’t.
‘I think it looked a bit easier on TV than it was. The ball was flying weird and went by the side of Nathaniel Clyne so I didn’t have much time.
‘So it wasn’t easy but I should have caught it and I don’t need anybody to tell me it was bad... because I know. ‘I am sorry that it cost us a point.’
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp’s first move after the defeat was to take his squad to Barcelona for two days. It was not a reactive measure. They were going anyway.
The headlines followed Karius to Spain, the coverage given life by Sky pundits Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville. Carragher suggested the young German does not look like a Liverpool goalkeeper and Neville said Karius transmitted anxiety to his defenders.
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