Liverpool took a step closer to their 19th league title with victory over city rivals Everton at Goodison Park last Monday.
And there was double disappointment for Manchester City, when they were held at home in the first leg of their Champions League tie by Real Madrid, with the Spanish visitors scoring a crucial away goal.
At least that's what happened according to the renowned Football Pools Panel .
The panel of former footballers usually sits to adjudicate results in times of bad weather, to allow the traditional football pools game to continue.
But following the shutdown of the football programme during the cornonavirus pandemic, the panel have been sitting to deliberate on results at home and abroad.
Perhaps we shouldn't have been too surprised by the panel's Merseyside derby outcome.
Joining Panel chairman Tony Green, the former Newcastle and Scotland star, are ex-Manchester United striker David Sadler and Anfield legend Ian Callaghan.
They panel sits at The Pools headquarters in Aintree every week, to adjudicate, based on their professional knowledge and opinions, on the most likely outcome of the Pools' selected scheduled fixtures.
The Panel will continue to operate as normal until the end of the scheduled football season, just as they have since 1963, to ensure that everyone stands a chance of winning a prize from the main pool in the Classic Pools game.
The Pools Panel sat for the first time on January 26, 1963 - during the big freeze.
The first panel consisted of six men: former England players Tom Finney, Tommy Lawton and Ted Drake, former Scotland full-back George Young, former World Cup referee Arthur Ellis, plus John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, the first Baron Brabazon of Tara.
No-one appears sure of the first Baron Brabazon's qualifications for sitting on the Panel - he was a former Tory MP and aviation pioneer who, in 1909, strapped a wastepaper basket containing a piglet to the wing of a plane to prove that pigs could fly .....
