Salah springs to life and plays retro Mo in his own tribute act for Liverpool | Barney Ronay

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How many more of these are we going to get?It would be incorrect to say this was Mohamed Salah’s night at Anfield. It was instead Mohamed Salah’s 17 second‑half minutes, although these were the decisive 17 minutes in this Champions League tie, and one of those interludes at this ground where a kind of voodoo descends, the night goes a little wonky and ghosts flicker at the edge of things.In this case Anfield was treated to a glimpse, wind chimes tinkling, of Peak Salah, retro Mo, Salah the way we were.

Salah took the ball on the right, played a one-two with Florian Wirtz, gilded by a saucy little bandy-legged flick into his path.Salah knows the lines from that spot. But it probably won’t look much like this one.Arne Slot’s team spent the whole first half applying blunt, smothering pressure to the Galatasaray goal.

Dad is here and he’s making a speech.Slot seemed a little spiky when asked about the boos that greeted the draw with Tottenham on Sunday. And by the end this had become something of a tribute night for a player who did more than any other to dish up last season’s league title; and who gave his manager the gift of a little more time and space here.