Surpreendente! As the rain cascaded down over the Estadio do Dragao, the genius of Mohamed Salah ensured the adjectives ran dry. Are there any words left to describe the Egypt international’s never-ending excellence in the final third, after another masterclass in Liverpool's 5-0 first-leg rout of Porto?
And so, short of inventing superlatives, the Portuguese expression for ‘amazing’ has been recruited on loan. Even that doesn’t feel remotely strong enough to fully articulate the exploits of the Liverpool forward, who recorded his 30th goal of the season on Tuesday night.
On the elite stage, and on Valentine’s Day, Salah delivered an eternal kind of romance: you can remember just how the 25-year-old made you felt when he flicked the ball over Porto goalkeeper Jose Sa, before setting himself up with a cushioned header and coolly putting Liverpool 2-0 up in the Champions League Last 16 by simply watching the magnificent choreography again.