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View image in fullscreenAnalysisUnruffled Liverpool and Salah serve up theatre and euphoria on title day at Anfield

Arne Slot’s team faced the perfect opponents as the afternoon became a dual celebration for their Covid season triumph

Football is often compared to theatre.

With 63 minutes gone at Anfield, and Liverpool already 3-1 up, Mohamed Salah took the ball on the right in an empty square of deep green, veered inside, and then paused, leaving just enough time time for the entire home crowd to freeze the moment, to see a snapshot of what was about to happen.

Salah rolled the ball to his left then spanked it hard into the near corner, drawing a vast, rolling cheer that just didn’t want to stop, a self-fuelling cheer for this relentless one-man highlights reel, face of an era, the curator of moments, who then made another one here by taking a mid-match celebration selfie with the Kop.

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Has anyone ever taken a mid-match selfie with the Kop before?

Arne Slot’s team have led from the start right through to that romp along the final straight, and done it all with a sense of strength in reserve, one of the most unruffled displays of frontrunning in recent Premier League memory.

The only real question here was, would it still feel like a party, such was the buildup to a title win that has for some non-neutrals been somehow too easy, too free of jeopardy, basically too good.

Well, it did.

At which point there are two things worth talking about, and one thing not worth talking about, which will still be talked about all the same.

The last of these is the only real threat to the notion of this Liverpool team as significant title winners.

Cody Gakpo got the third before half-time, tiptoeing through the Spurs defence, realising the Spurs defence wasn’t actually there, then deciding to stop tiptoeing and just smash the ball into the corner.

It felt fitting Liverpool’s best players on the day were their midfielders, all three of them Slot projects carefully reconfigured this season.

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Dominik Szoboszlai is such a fun footballer to watch, impossibly handsome in a skiing-out-of-a-helicopter kind of way, but also, in a piece of sporting irony, prosaic in his day job, which is to work and chase and create a weather front of pressing.

He has accepted this was always, to some degree, going to be a case of flowers for the Klopp era, but also marked this triumph as his own, most notably in the sunlit stroll of the early season, that sense of a team falling back in love with itself.

The real test of all this will come in the necessary rebuild of the next couple of years, the need to add rather than just reconfigure.
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