Salah’s swing and miss with the goal at his mercy showed he is human, after all, and he shot at Verbruggen shortly after from close range as the Egyptian failed to mark his 400th Liverpool game – and his 300th Premier League match overall – with a strike that would have seen him equal the competition’s single-season goal contribution record.

Substitute Jack Hinshelwood scored with his first touch of the ball and gave Brighton a thrilling 3-2 win over Liverpool on Monday and kept alive its slim chance of European football.