When Jurgen Klopp fashioned his first great Liverpool team, Mohamed Salah was the final piece in an attacking triumvirate that matched anything in Europe.
With Salah on the right providing a blizzard of goals, Brazil's Roberto Firmino providing silky touches allied to moments of genius through the centre and beyond, plus Sadio Mane delivering selfless brilliance and menace on the left, Liverpool swept up the major prizes.
The trio provided the Reds' adaptable, unstoppable spearhead – and now head coach Arne Slot's Liverpool machine has a new three-dimensional threat with echoes of the silver-lined past.