After missing Mohamed Salah, what do Liverpool ACTUALLY do when one of thrilling front three are injured?

Liverpool have been without Mané, Salah or Firmino on several occasions - so what happens?

Firmino, Mané and Salah rarely miss game time, but what happens when they do? (Image: Nick Taylor/Liverpool FC/Liverpool FC via Getty Images)

Of all the attributes Mohamed Salah possesses, his durability is the one which is probably slept on the most.

Before Sunday's 1-1 draw with Manchester United, the last time the Egyptian missed a league game for Liverpool came 18 months ago, in a 0-0 draw at Everton. Last season, he started 37, and came on as substitute in the other (a 3-1 win at Burnley in December). Given the injury sustained against Real Madrid CF in the 2018 Champions League final, such consistency is astonishing.

Perhaps Jürgen Klopp can be forgiven if he is found second-guessing himself in Salah's absence. He was, of course, missing against FC Barcelona on that magical May night, but that was a game which lacked any real notion of logic. Something different, something intangible and unquantifiable, happened under the floodlights that night.

Old Trafford was different. With no Salah, he opted for the obvious replacement: Divock Origi. But while it brought in a fresh face into the front three, already forcibly altering its make-up, it also moved Sadio Mané to the right-hand side. Klopp would spend the rest of the game trying to get the Senegalese star more central, and more involved, than he often found himself on the right.