With Liverpool set to conclude their pre-season fixture list by hosting Torino at Anfield tonight, read our in-depth guide to the visitors.
Somehow it doesn’t feel right that this will be the first ever encounter between Liverpool and Torino.
How can two clubs with such histories and standing within the game never have crossed paths until now?
Regardless, there’s every reason to believe that the match will be worth that long wait, as a Liverpool side primed and ready for the start of the Premier League season this coming weekend, and bolstered by the presence of new signings Fabinho, Naby Keita, Xherdan Shaqiri and Alisson Becker, welcome opponents who play a similar brand of attacking football and have shown some ambition with their own transfer manoeuvres this summer.