Mo Salah’s Silent Final Echoes History: Which Liverpool Icons Went Missing Before?

Liverpool put in one of their worst performances of the season (perhaps the worst) during their 2-1 defeat to Newcastle in the Carabao Cup final earlier this month, with Federico Chiesa’s stoppage time goal proving to be a mere footnote on a day of celebration for the Magpies.

It was a contest in which almost every Reds player failed to reach anywhere near their best levels, and one such culprit was Mo Salah, who never got into the game at all as he touched the ball only 23 times in the entire match and didn’t register a single shot.