'I can't explain my volley past Norwich'
As the ball looped high into the crisp Merseyside air and began its increasingly rapid descent towards the top corner of the goal guarded by Norwich City, the silence at Anfield was deafening.
Kopites had grown used to the unfathomable exploits of Luis Suarez; indeed, so had the Canaries - visitors to L4 in December 2013 - having twice already been on the wrong end of a hat-trick by the prolific Uruguayan.
But this was something different. This was a Goal of the Season contender happening in front of everyone's eyes, a piece of technique that very few peers would have imagined and fewer still would have successfully accomplished.
When the net at the Kop end rippled and the Reds' No.7 set off on a celebration that fans have now enjoyed on 24 separate occasions in this campaign, those inside the ground turned to one another searching for an explanation of what had just occurred.
They probably struggled. Three months on, Suarez himself almost downplays a moment which will take up permanent residence in the Liverpool history books and become a story that fathers pass on to sons for years to come.
The forward told FourFourTwo magazine: "My third that day - a flick over a defender and hard shot into the corner - was beautiful, but I can't even explain the first goal.
"The ball was bouncing and I shot, purely for the sake of shooting, and it went in the perfect spot. I didn't look at the 'keeper or the goal once.
"Sometimes when a striker is in the middle of a run of good luck, you've got to make the most of it - more or less shoot from anywhere and see what happens."
Outrageous finishes from all angles are beginning to rival another of Suarez's special tools of the trade in the popularity stakes - the precise nutmeg which has fooled defenders the world over.
Allow the 27-year-old the merest glance of a gap between your legs and don't be surprised if both he and the ball are gone in the blink of an eye. "It's instinct," he insists.
"A lot of defenders know what I'm going to do now, so they try to protect themselves. But I do it anyway. Against West Brom, I faced my national team captain, Diego Lugano.
"In the tunnel, he laughed: 'You'll never do it to me.' I did nutmeg him later on, but one of his teammates got the ball on the other side. We'll call it a draw."
Suarez's remarkable goal tally in 2013-14 - better than one strike every match in the Barclays Premier League - has almost been matched by the Reds' other lethal marksman, Daniel Sturridge.
The pair have dovetailed to perfection under the guidance of Brendan Rodgers, notching 42 times between them in the top flight, more than 15 teams in the division have managed in total.
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Suarez said: "There's no real secret. The best thing is that defences aren't only looking at what Suarez is doing.
"We create space for each other, and for our teammates to take advantage of. If we're marked, then it means someone else isn't.
"Daniel's a great guy, always making me, Lucas [Leiva] and Philippe [Coutinho] laugh by speaking in our languages.
"There were lots of Brazilians at Chelsea so his Portuguese isn't bad, actually. He should do well at the World Cup because he already knows the language."