Liverpool's attack was compared this week with 'Three Fighter Jets' by Paris Saint-Germain chief, Luis Enrique.
But for 45 minutes languid against Southampton, they resembled a current budget aircraft with propellers, fighting to take the flight.
They were worried about turbulence, since the worst team in the league took a surprise advantage and then gave him a slot in the groove of Chief Arne, watching from the stands, the air traffic control gave them a shutdown if he wishes to continue with the analogy.
Soon, Liverpool looked like the red arrows, zoom in the sky and leaving everything in its path. Flash and miss them.
Three half -weather substitutions and then two goals in two minutes just after turning the game in their head and opened an advantage of 16 points at the top of the Premier League table. Darwin Núñez continued his arc of redemption to score and then win a penalty that Mohamed Salah converted.
The Egyptian put the icing on the cake in the 88th minute with another knit shot so that it is 32 goals for him in an impressive campaign that is shooting Liverpool to supremacy and who knows how many individual praise accompany him.
Liverpool came from behind to beat Southampton in the Premier League in Anfield on Saturday
Darwin Núñez was instrumental in the fight of the second half of the Liverpool team against Los Santos
Alisson Becker (left) and Virgil van Dijk (Second Right) were to blame for the aperture goal
Poor old Southampton and manager Ivan Juric looked like rabbits in the headlights. In the first half, they played with confidence, vigor and structure that denied their league position. They were allowed to put a glove in the Liverpool, but they were soon shot down by the rapid one and two.
As most of the teams that come here they find out, Slot's men can lead you to a false sense of security and you are soon dead and buried. It feels the same for Arsenal in the race for the title. They have played two games less than Liverpool, but the points on the board are what matters.
Liverpool chief coach had asked his players to deal with this game as the first of the three cup finals this week, with PSG in the city on Tuesday and then a Capabao Cup final against Newcastle on Sunday.
Instead of a final, this felt more like a third round of the FA Cup in the first half. A heavy heavyweight against a fish, at least in relative terms. Complacency? Maybe. Fatigue? Certainly. Anfield felt flat both in the stands and in the field.
After a famous victory but, nevertheless, a zapping night in the French capital, perhaps it was always destined to be a day when Liverpool showed hangover symptoms.
Liverpool saw much of the ball, but the goalkeeper of the Saints, Aaron Ramsdale, only made simple salvages and the visitor team grew in confidence after a series of dangerous corners.
Then they took an advantage of shock in the part -time blow when Alisson and Virgil Van Dijk devised to leave the ball for each other. Neither of them took possession and Will Smallbone got, seized possession and then skillfully placed on the empty network.
After seeing their team take only five points on the road this season, fans of the faithful Saints who make hard -to -road and rail every two weeks celebrated the goal as if they had waited for a lifetime to do so. Good for them.
He was scored by the 25 -year -old midfielder Will Smallbone, the first of his career in the Premier League
Núñez left the visiting fans after matching and then won a penalty for his team
Slot, meanwhile, had his hands on his eyes and looked furious.
Some fans asked that both Núñez and Luis Díaz were dragged into the break, but Slot knows better and neither was sacrificed in their triple change. The South American duo soon combined for the Liverpool equalizer, Díaz blocking so that Núñez ends with energy.
Seconds later, genuinely, seconds, Núñez was advancing to his score again and Smallbone committed a lack of the Uruguayan. The young referee Lewis Smith pointed to the place and Salah comfortably sent 2-1.
From a stadium full of anxiety and frustration, this place was soon a hot noise and joy cauldron. Johnny Heititing, the coach took over Liverpool, called Núñez and kissed him on the forehead and slapped the butt … in addition to some tactical instructions.
Núñez has recently had difficulties with the slots calling it for a poor work rate, but the last days have been perfect: excellent assistance in the Parc des princes, a thunderous ending and winning a penalty. To a large extent, he put his fingers to his lips to silence the visual end that he previously made fun of him.
Southampton barely had a smell after that and Liverpool put the game in bed in 88 minutes when Yukinari Sugawara drove the ball in the penalty area. Salah took a step forward and, well, you know the rest.
The penalty was converted by MO Salah when Liverpool completed the change in 54 minutes
Later, Salah scored a second penalty and now has 32 goals in 41 Liverpool games this season