Tottenham were not in action on Thursday night, but Jose Mourinho may have been keeping a close eye on the one Premier League fixture.
Liverpool welcomed Burnley to Merseyside as Jurgen Klopp's side in the hope of returning to form having gone four league games without a win - including three without scoring.
And in a major surprise, the Reds were beaten at home for the first time in 69 Premier League home games - a record stretching all the way back to April 2017 - thanks to Ashley Barnes' penalty.
Simply put, the reigning champions of England aren't in great shape ahead of their next league outing against Spurs.
With that said, the main flashpoint came before half-time and an incident involving Barnes and Fabinho where the latter appeared to kick out at the Burnley striker.
However, following a VAR check, Fabinho was shown a yellow card.
Had Fabinho been sent-off he would have subsequently missed the game against Spurs next Thursday.
And Lineker is clearly of the opinion that the Brazilian - who has performed excellently as a centre-back in the absence of Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez - was rather fortunate to only be shown a yellow card.
Take a look at what the BBC Match of the Day and BT Sport presenter tweeted just after the incident, perhaps summing up how Spurs fans are feeling about the incident.
Thursday's meeting in north London comes less than a month after Spurs were beaten 2-1 in the reverse fixture at Anfield - a game that saw an exchange on the touchline between Mourinho and Klopp.
In his post-match interview with Amazon Prime, Mourinho revealed what he told Klopp and took aim at the Reds boss over his actions on the touchline during the dramatic climax.
"I told him the best team lost and he disagreed, but that’s his opinion," he said. "By the way, if I behaved the same way on the touchline like he does, then I have no chance of staying there and I’m out for a minute.
"That’s animated?
"Do you want me to take the fourth official board from his hands and see what happens to me? For some reason, I am different.
"So close to winning, not so close of a draw, so close to winning, but we missed the chances. We had the chances, we had the game under control.
"A draw would be a bad result in relation to the performance, so you can imagine how we feel in relation to the result. A very good performance, of course, with some mistakes and some things to improve.
"A very unfair result."
