enhanced his own reputation after Liverpool's 3-2 win over Brighton in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday night
Vitezslav Jaros looks on during the English League Cup round of 16 football match between Brighton and Hove
Having been introduced to James Milner's wife and children, Arne Slot was spotted deep in conversation with Liverpool's former vice captain and his own skipper for the night, Andy Robertson.
Elsewhere, in the bowels of Brighton's Amex Stadium, was Alexis Mac Allister, who could be seen chatting through things with his former colleagues Pervis Estupinan and Julio Enciso.
But of all the ongoing conversations near the tunnel area of the stadium, it was a chat between two lesser-known figures that was the most illuminating as Brighton goalkeeper Bart Verbruggen grabbed a quick word with Liverpool's head of goalkeeping Fabian Otte.
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Verbruggen, in fact, was so struck by the performance of Vitezslav Jaros in the Reds' 3-2 win over Brighton to set up a Carabao Cup quarter-final tie with Southampton that the Seagulls' shot-stopper simply had to learn more.
Verbruggen's grilling included questions about Jaros's age, what foot he preferred to kick with, where he'd previously been out on loan and what nationality the Czech international was. Otte answered them all before remarking that the second-half stop from Simon Adingra was "one of the best of the saves I've seen in a long, long time."
It's fair to say then that Jaros, a relative unknown to those outside of Liverpool circles, enhanced his wider reputation in Sussex on Wednesday night.
“I didn’t really know too much about it," Jaros himself says of the fingertip save from Adingra at 1-0. "I was just getting across then the header went back across the goal and I just stuck my hand out to get something on it – and it went wide luckily.
Otte backed up that private claim to Verbruggen later that night with a response to a clip of the save itself on social media. Three emojis that consisted of clapping hands, a smiling face and the symbol for a mind blown was quite the wordless piece of praise from the Reds chief.
"I thought it was really good," was Jaros's own more general take on his full Liverpool debut. "The team performance was brilliant as well. I'm happy with it overall. I’m really happy that I could help the team like this in a tough game against Brighton away. I’m over the moon with my performance and the team performance."
It's testament to Jaros's own quality that he was able to stand in for the stand-in and produce such an assured and authoritative performance in a difficult away-day against the well-drilled and upwardly mobile Brighton.
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