With the honourable exception of the diving header, there are few more beautiful sights in football then a bicycle kick goal.
Anfield was treated to a perfectly executed one on Saturday afternoon, when Sadio Mane pulled Liverpool level against Norwich City courtesy of a textbook acrobatic strike that had the stadium roaring with delight.
Still buzzing from his Africa Cup of Nations triumph, Liverpool's number 10 found space in the penalty area before meeting Kostas Tsimikas' headed cross with an outstanding finish at the Kop end.
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It was a goal to cherish, but Mane is not the only Liverpool player to perfect the wonder of the overhead kick.
And while his strike could prove to be hugely important as the season goes on, Sadio has arguably been outdone by a couple of ex-Reds in the spectacular stakes.
Here we look back on five of the best in Liverpool folklore...
John Barnes v Blackburn Rovers - October 15, 1994
No longer a flying winger, John Barnes' had converted himself into a central midfield player by the time Roy Evans' side came up against Kenny Dalglish's title-chasing Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park.
The champions-elect would go on to win the contest 3-2 but not before 'Digger' produced the moment of the match with a sublime overhead kick that was described by legendary commentator Barry Davies as: "One for the scrap book".
Barnes scored 108 goals for Liverpool, many of them stunners, but this was up there with his very best.
Peter Crouch v Galatasaray - September 27, 2006
Crowd favourite Crouch failed to score in any of his first 19 matches for Liverpool after signing from Southampton for a fee of £7million, so supporters could be forgiven for assuming that the 6ft 7" striker didn't have an acrobatic goal in him.
But when the Reds came up against Turkish side Galatasaray in a Champions League Group stage match at Anfield, a Steve Finnan cross from the right wing was dispatched by Crouch with a sublime scissor-kick that left the Kop wondered just what he had been doing for the first four months of his Liverpool career.
Crouch celebrated the goal with a rendition of his famous robotic dance celebration, which fortunately didn't last for too long.
Sebastian Coates v Queens Park Rangers - March 21, 2012
Uruguayan defender Coates failed to live up to his promise in a Red shirt, after signing from Nacional in a deal reportedly worth £7million.
He scored a solitary goal in his Liverpool career, but if you're only going to do it once, make sure it's like this.
When a Stewart Downing's shot was cleared off the line, the ball fell into the path of an unmarked Coates on the edge of the box, who produced a bewildering scissor-kick that Zlatan Ibrahimović would be proud of.
Indredibly the Reds somehow manage to throw away a 2-0 lead with 13 minutes to go at Loftus Road and ended up losing 3-2, rendering Coates' strike as the only postiive.
Now 31, Coates is still playing today for Sporting Lisbon in the Portugese Primeira Liga.
Emre Can v Watford - May 1, 2017
German international Emre Can was not renowned for his goal-scoring prowess but there can be little doubt that his goal against Watford at Vicarage Road was the finest of his whole career.
With a drab first half ticking into stoppage time, fellow midfielder Lucas chip a ball forward to Can, who produced an overhead kick so beautiful it was declared both the BBC and Carling Goal of the Season.
Can eventually left Anfield for Juventus a year later, but he arguably holds the title of Liverpool's greatest overhead kick goal of all time.
Xherdan Shaqiri v Manchester United - July 28, 2018 (pre-season)
The 'Alpine Messi' joined Liverpool from Stoke City for £13.5million in the summer of 2018. Having previous played for European giants Inter Milan and Bayern Munich, supporters had high hopes for the Swiss international but they probably weren't expecting him to make such an immediate impact.
Shaqiri's first appearance in a Liverpool shirt was against Manchester United during the preseason International Champions Cup tournament in the USA.
With Liverpool leading 3-1, Ben Woodburn provided a cross from the edge of the box which was met by Shaqiri with a perfectly executed bicycle kick that almost ripped the net out of the United goal.
The stocking play-maker has made a habit of scoring outrageous goals throughout his career and score plenty of big goals during his time with the Reds, but in isolation, this was arguably his finest finish.
Shaqiri recently signed a contract in the MSL with Chicago Fire, who presumably remembered his heroics in the International Champions Cup back in 2018.
