Wirtz intervention rescues point for ailing champions Liverpool against Sunderland

More purposeful, cohesive and, for the most part, threatening, Sunderland could and probably should have prevailed.

Liverpool's Florian Wirtz scores the equaliser. Pic: Peter Byrne/PA Wire.

Liverpool 1 Sunderland 1

Garret FitzGerald was less than a year into his reign as taoiseach and Culture Club’s Karma Chameleon topped the charts in Ireland when Sunderland last triumphed over Liverpool at Anfield.