Yet it is debatable whether their new found fans will want to return after an evening in which Gareth Southgate's ultra cautious side barely threatened Jose Reina and two defenders, Jonathan Woodgate and Emmanuel Pogatetz, proved his outstanding performers.
Liverpool's pitiful away form continued and, with a third of the season gone, they are now 16 points behind the leaders, Manchester United, and may struggle to secure the fourth Champions League spot, let alone win the title.
In truth, fortune frowned on Rafa Benitez's side who deserved to win by some distance but somehow could not muster a first away Premiership victory of the season against a strangely defensive Boro.
"We played well and deserved to win," insisted a defiant Benitez whose team are, incredibly, still waiting to claim their inaugural away goal from open play in the League this term.
Southgate was more than a little relieved, explaining: "Our goalkeeper, Mark Schwarzer was excellent and Jonathan Woodgate was immense against top quality players; we're happy with a point and a clean sheet."
He once again deployed Yakubu as a lone striker and the Nigerian, who received negligible service from James Morrison and Julio Arca on the wings, laboured in vain against the impressive Daniel Agger and Jamie Carragher.
Ultimately it proved a similarly forlorn afternoon for Craig Bellamy who is experiencing a somewhat slow-burn start to his Liverpool career.
Yet Bellamy created arguably the best chance of the game for Dirk Kuyt in the first half. Chesting down a trademark through pass from Steven Gerrard, he left the ball to bounce for the Dutchman who directed a half volley narrowly wide.
Momo Sissoko's injury induced absence meant that Benitez fielded Gerrard in his preferred central midfield role and, after a strangely tentative beginning featuring a few loose passes, he and Xabi Alonso increasingly dictated that department.
With Boro's Jason Euell, particularly, looking out of his depth, it was all Liverpool and Alonso dispatched a shot marginally off target while Mark Gonzalez began making in-roads down the left.
Nevertheless the industrious Kuyt could have done with a few more decent crosses from Gonzalez and Jermaine Pennant but at least, unlike Boro, Liverpool were getting bodies into the opposition box.
That said the Teessiders' should have taken the lead early in the second half when Jose Reina could only parry Euell's header but Yakubu missed a straightforward opening on the rebound.
Otherwise the second period belonged to Liverpool and the pick of a litany of visiting chances saw a goalbound Bellamy header deflected to safety off Robert Huth's face, Schwarzer divert Agger's shot as it arrowed towards the top corner and Woodgate clear a Peter Crouch header off the line.