Mohamed Salah (left) is congratulated after his landmark 250th goal for the club set Liverpool on their way to a much-needed win over Aston Villa on Saturday evening(Image: Jan Kruger/Getty Images)

It may have ultimately been mere late consolation on another miserable evening for Liverpool. But Mohamed Salah’s brilliantly-taken strike at Brentford could prove one of the most important goals of the season for Arne Slot.

For a myriad of reasons – some unavoidable, some less so – Salah has this campaign too often been a shadow of the player rightly named the Premier League’s best last term.

The nagging suspicion has been the Egyptian needing just a spark, a moment to provide the catalyst for a reminder, not least to himself, of his undoubted talents.

OPINION

His first-half performance here was indication a corner may well have been turned, easily gaining the better of a spooked Lucas Digne even if not all of the winger’s final touches and decisions matched what went before.

But it was...