As Diogo Jota ghosted from nowhere between two bewildered defenders to score with sublime instinct, Anfield experienced a shiver of recognition.
It was pure Fowler. A movement of musical artistry, a glancing header after an unseen run in front of his disorientated marker into the far corner. A classic striker’s goal. Robbie Fowler’s instinctive, at times un-markable, movement in the penalty area was his superpower, the quality which marked him out as the best goalscorer of his generation, and a Liverpool legend.
Yet Jota arrived on Merseyside as a wide player, a goalscoring one it’s true, but not a natural striker. Nowhere near. Watford though, will testify he certainly is that now…as 20 goals this season - for the first time in his career - also illustrates.
