Edin Dzeko faces off with Mohamed Salah as Liverpool lay in wait for Inter Milan

Edin Dzeko will take to the San Siro pitch with old friend Mohamed Salah when Inter Milan take on Liverpool in the Champions League last 16 on Wednesday, a reminder of the havoc the pair used to cause together at Roma. After an anonymous time at Chelsea and signs of promise at Fiorentina, Salah's career really started to take off after arriving in the Italian capital in 2015. Once firmly established as strike partners under Luciano Spalletti, Dzeko and Salah hit it off in a big way, scoring 58 goals in all competitions in 2016-17 and helping Roma to second in Serie A as an ageing Francesco Totti was shunted aside.

Salah's inconsistent but at times unstoppable performances earned him a move to Merseyside, where under Jurgen Klopp he quickly became one of the world's best, for what now looks a paltry 50 million euros (at the time £43 million). "I must say, in some little way, I helped Momo become what he is now," Dzeko said in an interview published by the Daily Mail last week. "We had a great time together in Rome... I'm so happy for him, a great guy who deserves everything he has achieved." Dzeko looks a player reborn since making the move north from Roma in the summer, and has been such a hit with Inter fans that they have largely forgotten Romelu Lukaku, the key man behind last season's league triumph.

Lukaku's now infamous interview with Sky Sport Italia was met with little more than shrugged shoulders from Inter fans. Less prolific than Lukaku, Dzeko has nonetheless scored 14 goals in all competitions and often pops up when it matters. His equaliser in Saturday's pulsating title clash at Napoli ensured that Inter, a point behind new leaders AC Milan but with game in hand, still hold the advantage in the race for