Liverpool were not the only ones to suffer a heavy defeat at the weekend, but the incredible loss at the hands of Aston Villa would still have been a tough one to take for Reds fans around the world.
Manchester United shipped six at Old Trafford against Tottenham earlier the same day, while Leicester were beaten 3-0 at home against West Ham United, having hammered Manchester City 5-2 just a week earlier.
In the Premier League so far this season, there have been more shocks and surprises than ever before, and more goals too.
Even the shocks that have taken place - Leicester winning at the Etihad Stadium, for instance - have seen scorelines much larger than would normally be the case.
For Liverpool, the season had been going relatively swimmingly prior to Sunday - a penalty shootout aside. Then inside five minutes against Villa, Adrian had conceded, and soon later even Virgil van Dijk was diving into desperate challenges, the likes of which have rarely, if ever, been seen before by the normally ice-cool Dutchman.
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On the Blood Red podcast, Paul Gorst said: "We will see some more crazy results like that popping up across the board because there seems to be an air of the players not being at 100 per cent fitness, and the lack of fans is having an impact on how teams are approaching games, particularly away from home.
"We might see a few more wild scorelines like that across the season but hopefully Liverpool are not on the receiving end again as they were at Villa."
Wild is certainly one way of putting it. Mohamed Salah finding the back of the net twice was perhaps the only positive for Jurgen Klopp's men to take, and more results of the same kind are likely to follow.
With no fans inside stadia, there is a little less urgency, and concentration is more easily lost by the players, leading to defensive mistakes. Add in the crazy fixture schedule factor and the bizarre results do begin to make a little more sense.
Liverpool's capitulation was more than just that, of course, but that does go some way to explaining the madness seen across most teams in the division so far in 2020/21.
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Joe Rimmer added: "We are going to see a lot of strange results and this for Liverpool, at least, is the first example of that.
"Maybe on another day Liverpool will put a few past somebody else, but my worry is that if you get beat 3-0 you can say it’s an off-day, but to concede seven against Aston Villa could linger."
Liverpool cannot afford for the defeat to linger for long, though many players will have already jetted off to link up with their national teams for the international break.
When they return to face Everton, however, they will be boosted by the likely return of Thiago Alcantara, Sadio Mane and Jordan Henderson. Goalkeeper Alisson, though, will not be back in time having sustained a shoulder injury in training.
But even with those stars back, Aston Villa 7-2 Liverpool is unlikely to be the last Premier League game this season that requires a double-take at the scoreline.
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