While Divock Origi's goal came late at Molineux when most Liverpool fans had given up hope, it was a winner that saw the best team in the match come away with the points they fully deserved.
Diogo Jota, Sadio Mané and Mohamed Salah will all have come away thinking they should have scored earlier in the game, and on another afternoon, it could have been a comfortable margin of victory.
But Liverpool, once dubbed the Mentality Monsters by assistant manager Pep Lijnders, were thankfully in no mood to give up, and eventually their relentless chipping away at José Sá prevailed, long after it might have.
At this time of the year, getting three points regularly can make a bigger difference than most, given the hectic schedule means the games continue to come thick and fast.
With Chelsea having lost at West Ham earlier in the day and Man City soon to beat Watford at Vicarage Road, this was not a chance that Liverpool could afford to miss, and ultimately they just about didn't.
"We fought a lot and it was a difficult game against a strong team offensively and defensively. It was about getting the win and it shows our mentality," matchwinner Origi said at full-time.
"We have the three points which is important to keep the momentum going. Sometimes in games like this, you try and try and it does not immediately go in but we have worked on being calm and we have quality offensively.
"He [Klopp] told us we played a good game and was happy, like the whole dressing room."
The 26-year-old was the Liverpool hero — his manager later referred to him as a Reds 'legend' — but it was a collective effort of keeping going despite the feeling that the Wolves defence were impenetrable that ultimately told.
Kostas Tsimikas could be seen leaping for joy on the touchline; the smile on Thiago's face on the field was a perfect picture.
The same level of elation was seen across every Liverpool player, with this moment perhaps akin to Aston Villa in November 2019 when late goals from Andy Robertson and Sadio Mané secured the points.
The away dressing room, as Origi said, was a happy place at the final whistle, when it was seconds away from being anything but.
Liverpool face Aston Villa next and must produce a similarly relentless performance to come away with another three points in that game, despite the Steven Gerrard distraction.
Then come Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, Leeds United and Leicester City.
The Reds and Klopp must hope this is a similarly transformative result to that visit to Villa Park two seasons ago, and the winning run can continue.