Liverpool stepped up their pre-season preparations as the whole squad got some valuable minutes in two back-to-back 60-minute matches against Serie A Bologna in Evian.
A stronger Reds side won the first match 2-0, with Diogo Jota and Sadio Mane both finishing clinically when presented with opportunities by slack defending from the Italians.
The Reds then completely changed their XI for the second match, which they won 1-0 courtesy of a strike from Takumi Minamino, with Divock Origi hitting the post with a penalty.
Here are the main talking points across the two games, as manager Jurgen Klopp was given plenty to think about.
1. Sadio Mane looks in the groove
Last season was a pretty disappointing one by Sadio Mane's fairly lofty standards, as the Senegalese often looked a little off the pace compared to how we've seen him before.
Struggles in front of goal were visible too, but after his strike here for the Reds in the first game he's took his tally to three goals in an encouraging pre-season.
He looks to be finding his groove again, and that can only be bad news for opposition defenders.
2. Valuable minutes for Virgil
Speaking earlier in the week, Virgil van Dijk stated that the plan was for him to play 30 minutes in one of these matches as he steps up his return to fitness.
But he managed 43.
The Dutchman looked comfortable on the ball and didn't display any of the rustiness he showed in his comeback against Hertha Berlin last week, and there was suddenly a real sense that we could end up seeing him early in the Premier League season after all.
For that to happen then he'd probably need an hour or more in one of Liverpool's upcoming Anfield friendlies, but you wouldn't put it past him.
3. Still no goals for Mo, but he won't be worried
One of main things that Jurgen Klopp would have enjoyed about this pre-season was that so many of his really big name players have been there from the start of it.
Mo Salah is perhaps the biggest of those, and while there was a look of frustration on his face when his effort struck the crossbar in the first game, the fact that - unlike Mane - he still hasn't scored in pre-season won't concern the Egyptian or his manager.
Salah is far more likely to see it as saving up the goals for when they really count, and his fitness levels certainly look sharp going into the new campaign.
4. Minamino continues to make his mark
A scorer in the first half of the second game, Takumi Minamino has managed to use this pre-season to remind Klopp that he could still have a future at the club.
The loan to Southampton at the back end of last season seemed to pave the way for him leaving the Reds, but the Japanese international has stuck with it and looked fairly useful in pre-season.
His ability to play all across the front line and as a No.10 is more than useful, and it wouldn't be a shock to see him figure in the Reds' first few competitive games of the season, even if that is from the bench.
The same can be said for some other players previously on the fringes to, with the likes of Kostas Tsimikas, Harvey Elliott, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Naby Keita hovering dangerously close to that 'like a new signing' description.
5. Is that Manchester United?
We had to eventually.
Liverpool's mix and match effort featuring their home shirt and away shorts and socks wasn't a look that was likely to go down too well with the fans given how much it looked like a certain rival.
For one afternoon only the Reds became the Red, Black and Whites, as a miscommunication led to them thinking they could wear their full away strip for the match.
It isn't likely to catch on.
