Praise for Matt...

One player, however, recieved the main focus of his attention... He singled out Jansen for his sparkling performance regardless of the face he didn’t score. Souness was apparently "enthused" over his contribution.

"Matt was immense for us tonight," said Souness.

"People will point to the build-up in Yordi’s goal. Forget about that, for me, Matt Jansen played, for me, the best game of football I’ve seen him play.

"He’s got a problem, he’s got a bit of a hernia which is preventing him doing all the training. But Matt’s blessed with natural fitness. He wasn’t man-of-the-match by a little bit tonight, he was outstanding!

"People remember the trick for the second goal. Forget that and look at the rest of the work he did tonight. He worked his socks off and was magnificent."