Liverpool needed Mohamed Salah to come off the bench to help see off Stoke City on Wednesday night.
Salah came off the bench to score twice and secure an ultimately comfortable victory for Liverpool over Stoke that moves Jurgen Klopp's side up to fifth.
Senegal winger Sadio Mane gave the Reds a controversial early lead, dinking the ball into the net after a marginal linesman's call.
Stoke believed Liverpool keeper Simon Mignolet should have been sent off for a challenge just outside the box on their striker Mame Biram Diouf and Mark Hughes' side applied pressure after the break.
Klopp said: "That is a proper away game, it is a difficult place.
"I don't think it was lucky with Simon Mignolet, there were two defenders around the situation and he is not the last man.
"Thank you is all I said to Mohamed Salah, it is nice to come on in a situation like this. We have a lot of work to do, with Peter Crouch on the pitch it make it difficult and they are good on the ground but we have to keep fighting for the second ball. It was very deserved and we are very happy."
Source: tribalfootball.com