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He's out of luck, out of goals, out of form, apparently out of confidence, and possibly out of the team.

But I can guarantee that Mo Salah will be thinking right now: 'I haven’t scored a goal in open play since February, so it’s written in the stars I’ll break the drought this weekend.' How can I tell you that? Because I’ve been there myself, many times. All strikers have, even the greatest of them.

It is just as much part of being a goalscorer as actually putting the ball in the net, because it is how you deal with the barren spells which is the gauge of quality as a forward. The best of them, the world-class ones, think differently: they always believe a run of games without a goal is merely a sign that one is just around the corner. And there will be an iron belief it will be a spectacular one… a match-winner in the biggest game.

So if Salah has been feeling uneasy in recent weeks over his form, then believe me, he’ll have looked at the calendar and picked the visit to Manchester City as the perfect platform. I’m pretty sure the longest I went in my entire Liverpool career without a goal was eight games - and that came in the treble-winning season of 2000-01.

I was under pressure during that campaign, left out far too often for my liking, but still finished with 18 goals, a spectacular finish in the League Cup final, another decent one in the UEFA Cup final, and I came on at 1-0 down in