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and finding a way. That’s what we did. That’s what all the teams are doing now.

“City haven’t played their best but have been winning games and Tottenham have done the same.

“People can overreact when you go that long without the first defeat but we all stayed calm, we knew what we had to do.

“We knew how long this run-in was going to be and that the chances of us being unbeaten this season were very hard.

Laughable

“But we were still four points clear after Man City and now we go to seven again. Obviously they have the game in hand but we’ve got the points on the board.”

The pressure is back on Pep Guardiola’s City side who host Wolves tonight.

Asked whether he preferred his Liverpool team to be the hunters or the hunted, Robertson would only confirm he expected the title race to go all the way.

He said: “It doesn’t really make any difference. Every team will be looking to finish top at the end of the season and that’s all that matters, it doesn’t matter how you get there. We know it’s going to go right to the wire.”

The laughable suggestion that Salah was theatrical in his response to Pascal Gross’s pull on his shirt and kick at his legs in the box is an embarrassment to anyone who comes up with it. If that challenge did now warrant the decisive penalty, then we might as well pack up and go home. Robertson was quick to defend his team-mate, insisting he wasn’t bothered by the criticism Salah is getting.

The Scot said: “He’s not that type of player and every time it happens, then, we go back and everyone looks at the video and you go, ‘Well, it’s not a dive’. So how many times is it going to happen? “I’ll need to see it back but I was at the edge of the box and for me it was a stonewaller. “If people are starting to say Mo has gone down easily, it’s not fair because the one against Arsenal, especially, he got clipped three times on his way down and they still appealed it, so it’s a bit of desperation.”