Brendan Rodgers hailed his Liverpool side for an "outstanding performance" after watching Martin Skrtel's injury-time header earn them a point in a 2-2 draw with Arsenal at Anfield.
The Merseysiders dominated possession but had seemed destined for defeat when Mathieu Debuchy and Olivier Giroud struck after Philippe Coutinho had opened the scoring.
But in nine minutes of added time -- mostly due to a head injury suffered by Skrtel in the second half -- the defender bulleted home a header from a corner to ensure that honours ended even.
And Rodgers, who saw Liverpool advance into the Capital One Cup semifinals with victory at Championship leaders Bournemouth on Wednesday, told the BBC: "It was an outstanding performance, and there's no doubt we deserved to win the game. Our performance today was better than when we won here 5-1 last year.
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"We had total domination of the first half, and 1-0 was probably about right. But then we gave away a disappointing goal right on half-time, and that can leave you a bit deflated.
"We had deserved to be one up at half-time, and I don't think it was a free kick in the build-up to their second.
"Alexis Sanchez dived, for me, and the referee bought it -- but we have to defend better. We lost three duels, and we need to win the first one."
But he added: "I'm delighted with our performances this week, and it shows we are getting back to where we were.
"At half-time, we asked for more of the same, with the same movement, and we showed great character to fight back from 2-1 down with 10 men [after the sending-off of substitute Fabio Borini for two yellow cards].
"I don't think before this week we have been close to that level of speed and thought, and you have to be creative as a coach to find a system that brings you back to that.
"There's no problem with our organisation. It is decision-making that can be our problem -- you cannot make poor decisions if you are going to keep clean sheets.
"But even down to 10 men we kept penetrating, and the goal at the end was the very least we deserved for the character that we showed."
Rodgers added that he believed his side could "absolutely" challenge for the top four despite currently being 10th in the table.
And he said he expected long-term injury victim Daniel Sturridge to be back after the Christmas fixtures, saying: "That will be really exciting. Put him back in and we will be back to that flow in our game, and hopefully our results."