Video of Guardiola getting scared about facing Salah, Mane & Firmino is forever fascinating

Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino are one of the greatest front threes that the Premier League has ever seen.

While Firmino might have fizzled out and been usurped by Diogo Jota in recent seasons, the Brazilian formed part of an unstoppable Liverpool triumvirate during his peak years at Anfield.

It’s hard to imagine a world in which the Reds would have reached back-to-back Champions League finals and won the Premier League title if their star-studded trio hadn’t been leading the line.

With Firmino pinging passes like a playmaker-striker hybrid to the prolific Mane and Salah, you could rest assured that Liverpool would always give you bang for your bucks at the business end of the pitch.

In fact, the Firmino-Mane-Salah dynamic was so potent at its best that even Pep Guardiola, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest tactical minds in history, felt scared about playing against them.

While that might sound a bit extreme at first glance, we can safely make that statement considering the Manchester City boss said it himself in Manchester City’s ‘All or Nothing’ documentary.

The programme followed the Citizens’ near-perfect 2017/18 season, but even a year that reaped a record-breaking 100 points still saw plenty of heartache at the hands of Liverpool’s front three.

And the moment that Guardiola expressed his fear about facing said trio came in footage of the City boss preparing to face the Merseyside club in the Champions League quarter-finals.

Having lost their unbeaten record in the Premier League to Liverpool in a 4-3 defeat with Mane, Salah and Firmino all scoring, Guardiola was wary to avoid a repeat performance in Europe.

The result? A fascinating conversation with assistants Carles Planchart and