Despite Liverpool’s 2022 continuing to unfold in what could lead to an unprecedented manner, it is still true to say that the most important match that their two premier attackers have played in this year didn’t come in a Reds shirt.
Then by Tuesday, that will be threefold.
It was a little under seven weeks ago that Sadio Mane cracked home a penalty that all of Senegal had been waiting for, as a football mad country that have produced so many excellent players - both for their own national team and others - lifted the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time.
