Both parties laid aside their scruples and struck down their opponents without mercy.
The goal is clearly to strike fear into their opponents, a tactic that, combined with lightning strikes out of the blue, has certainly triggered panic and flight in some places.
The story is rife with possibilities in an election year, and pundits and politicians are quick to spin it to their own advantage, be it to extol their virtues or launch preemptive strikes against their opponents.
You fire your "laser" through the din to strike your opponents and capture their base while trying to avoid being shot.
Fighters can't bite, hit each other in the dick, or strike at the face when their opponents are down, but that's it.
Strike your opponent behind their knee caps.
Yet it was still not enough to strike a psychological blow against their opponents ahead of next year's World Cup, though Wales insist they can improve.
Their defending, particularly that of Alberto Moreno, once again offered encouragement to their opponents and struck fear into their supporters.
Liverpool's earlier fluency was now absent and their opponents almost struck again when a deflected effort from Gardner was tipped to safety.
But it did not strike his opponents as strange that a serious writer should spend a tenth of his life creating something as crude as an insult.
