Even by Liverpool's standards, Sunday was something faintly ridiculous.
A scratch team containing teenagers, debutants and fringe players were underdogs against a near full-strength Everton in their FA Cup third round tie at Anfield.
We all know what happened next.
And the outstanding performance in the 1-0 win, secured by a wonder strike from Curtis Jones, was reflected in the ECHO's player ratings.
Yours truly was on duty once again at Anfield and handed out five 9s to Jones, Adrian, Neco Williams, Pedro Chirivella and Adam Lallana.
Yasser Larouci, on from the bench, scored an 8.
That no Liverpool player scored lower than 7 underlined what an impressive showing it was from Jurgen Klopp's side.
What everyone else said
Of course, other ratings are available. And the national media were pretty impressed.
The Mirror ranked Jones, Lallana, Gomez and Adrian best on 8, with every other starter bar Milner scoring 7.
The Mail do things by halves and had Jones best on 8.5 ahead of Adrian, Williams, Lallana and Elliott on 8. Minamino was only handed 6.
The Daily Star put Williams top on 8 ahead of Chirivella, Lallana, Jones, Phillips, Gomez and Adrian on 7.
The Independent named Jones best on 9 with Elliott, Chirivella, Lallana, Williams and Adrian on 8. Phillips, though, scored only 5.
Meanwhile, The Times couldn't separate Adrian, Williams, Gomez, Lallana and Jones, who all scored 8.
Finally, the number-crunchers at WhoScored.com calculated Jones best on 7.58 with Minamino the lowest ranked starter with 6.10.
