For once he was not the best player on the field, far from it. Was Mo Salah even fully fit to play this game? For long periods he really didn’t look it.
But still, when it mattered, he was ready. For almost an hour, the Liverpool forward chased lost causes and ran down blind alleys, swamped by a sea of sky blue.
So to do what he did when opportunity arrived to turn this tie comprehensively back in the direction of his team said everything about his mental alertness, his instincts and his value to this team.