This time there was no hollow, empty atmosphere. Only the sound of pure, unbridled joy.
This time, Anfield was full of capacity – most of the 62,000 parties and their hymns singing when five years earlier the Covid -Lockdown meant that one of them could be there to celebrate with their heroes.
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They even laughed when Ismaila Sarr Crystal Palace put in the lead after nine minutes.
And Ryan Gravenberch is carded red for a last man challenge on Daichi Kamada to go with a quarter of the game, few of them gave a Giller.
Although they were very fond of the Mo Salah bent equalizer who gave him a record – are 84one Minute Strike brought him to the level of Alan Shearer and Andy Cole.
They have left their mark with 47 target contributions in a prem season of 42 races.
Anfield’s Egyptian king, and now the holder of both the Prem player of the year of the year and the equivalent of the football writers, came in 38.
The last time Liverpool won the title, the campaign was finally played for the sound of silence.
When to their 19one Success was confirmed in the night of 25 June 2020, when Boss Jurgen Klopp and his players were only allowed to enjoy it for family, a handful of friends and staff.
The seats around them in the captures when former skipper Jordan Henderson lifted the Prem Trophy, were decorated with the flags of fans denied the privilege, but desperate to feel their presence in one way or another.
Yet those emblems could not cover the occur of that half -lit opportunity by coronavirus and forced horrible vacuum.
Klopp and his champions tried to make the best of it that night, after Chelsea Manchester City had defeated 2-1 to provide Liverpool Glory with a Prem Record-Zeven competitions.
But they smiled and waved at almost no one.
Never such good times seemed like that down, especially in the midst of the fears and that the nation arrived.
Nothing could disguise how surreal and strange that moment was, such as Klopp, Henderson and the team in Triumph Brld, their shouts echoed around an abandoned Anfield.
This time, while Alan Hansen, the last captain who lifted the title trophy for fans after First Division Glory 1990, waited to present the prem version to Virgil van Dijk, you could hardly hear yourself speaking.
Ironically, Palace were the visitors who had unfortunately suffered muted parties 24 hours before the defeat of the city.
But this time the players of Oliver Glasner also arrived with themselves to pieces as new FA Cup holders who have also reached another historical milestone by achieving the highest total of the club in Prem Era.
Very much a coming power, they were planning to spoil the party.
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Within a defense that has been on the beach since he won the title against Tottenham a month ago, Sarr Klinisch finished and threw the traveling support their inflatable FA Cupreplicas in the air.
Nobody in red has taken care of so much.
They were so happy that even the second half of the rise of Trent Alexander-Arnold as a replacement for Conor Bradley was mainly met with mild applause.
Yet he was drowned down after he had replaced him in the 2-2 draw by Arsenal, seen as a deserter because he goes to Real Madrid.
Nothing, even no defeat could take away the atmosphere and Schipper van Dijk set the tone in his program.
He wrote: “After we refused this in 2020, we all have a duty to make this opportunity best, and to make it the most lucky and cheerful experience
“We have to enjoy these moments, because these are the things we work for every day.”
The Dutchman, honored by the gigantic wall painting of his face, now decorating a terrace-end in the neighborhood, added: “The idea of being in Anfield and to lift that trophy for all our supporters?
“That’s something else. It’s something special.”
And boy everyone did his duty, the believers who filled the streets around Anfield for hours before the stairs – out.
In contrast to five years ago, a multiple more of them – perhaps to the same 750,000 who after the Champions League triumph for Liverpool’s Open – Top Bus Parade turned out to be – will be tomorrow to praise the Prem -Champions.
But the last time there was of course no city – wide street party and no parade.
Of those who denied that Glory ride van Dijk, Andy Robertson, Joe Gomez, Trent Alexander-Arnold, in his farewell match before he left for Real Madrid, Harvey Elliott, Curtis Jones and Caoimhin Kelleher will continue to participate in all the pleasure this time.
Along, of course, Salah, top scorer in the 2019-2020 season, top scorer this season also with 29 now, for his teammates as in everyone since he arrived from Roma in 2017 for £ 36.5 million.
And look, ready to really party this time and looked around ten years younger, Klopp himself who left at the end of last season to be replaced by Arne Slot but whose heart stays in Anfield.
There were fears that his decision to walk alone could indicate a crisis.
Last night, in the midst of all the festivities, that also sounded like a pretty smile.
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