From the reaction of the fans at the final whistle it was hard to judge which side had won easily.
No wonder, then, that Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp privately questions what happened to the cathedral of football that made Anfield such a draw for him.
He is too canny to ever publicly voice such a sentiment but after this important victory for his side he did offer some pointed advice to those fans who are so quick to vent their frustration.
“The problem is here, the moment things don’t work out, we get compared with the past,” he said. “They wreck the confidence of the players when they say things like, ‘You are not good enough’.
"It’s a problem.”
Klopp dismissed the half-time booing by saying he would not make a big deal out of it, but one by one as the players came out of the dressing room after the game they spoke of the tension picked up from the Anfield crowd.
It was a point their manager made, amusingly, when he spoke about the decision to allow Mohamed Salah to take a penalty before half-time, even with regular penalty-taker James Milner on the pitch.
Salah had scored a penalty under huge pressure in the last minute of a World Cup qualifier for Egypt to get his nation to the finals, and Klopp said: “I thought it made sense after the Egypt penalty. The pressure is bigger in Liverpool than in Egypt! I’m not sure that he is on penalties any more...”
It is that pressure from the fans – and of course pundits who become world-class players once they retire – that creates an almost endless feeling of crisis, even though Liverpool, given their spending, are more or less in the position they should be, both domestically and in Europe.
Even Huddersfield boss David Wagner noticed the dismay among the crowd. “I’ve been here often in the last three years,” said Wagner, “but I have never heard Anfield so quiet.”
To be fair to the fans, the first half was pretty lame.
Huddersfield, fresh from a 2-1 win over Manchester United a week earlier, barely attempted to get into the Liverpool half – no wonder they had failed to score at West Ham, Crystal Palace, Burnley, and Swansea before this trip.
Liverpool struggled to carve out an opening, save for the penalty miss, in that opening half but were ahead within five minutes of the second half thanks to an error from Town skipper Tommy Smith, who diverted an Alberto Moreno pass into the path of Daniel Sturridge.
The England man, largely anonymous in the first half, calmly dinked a shot into the net for his 100th club career goal. His lengthy celebration demonstrated just how much it meant.
The excellent Roberto Firmino added a second with a fine header, and Georginio Wijnaldum rounded it off with another great finish, showing Liverpool have class when the pressure relents.
“I am officially happy,” said Klopp afterwards.“Immediately today you could see the relief, how big it was. They could enjoy it after that...”
The message is simple: the Anfield crowd need to stop being knee-jerk reactionaries and start being supporters again.