Liverpool 2-0 Sheffield Utd: Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah mythbusters

Liverpool beat Chris Wilder’s Sheffield United 2-0 on Thursday as Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah proved to be excellent mythbusters.

There’s this mint show called Mythbusters were they take questions and urban myths and dispel them using logic and science. We don’t have a laboratory available to us, we’ve got Anfield, and our subjects are a pair of jet heeled Africans who delight and enthral us.

Myths have a funny way of coming about or being dispelled but the duo are on the way towards making that a thing of the past. A few stories broke earlier in the year about Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane having a spat or not really liking each other, but after the Sheffield United win can anyone really say that anymore?

Salah scored the first goal and Mane the second, aided by an excellent run and return ball from the Egyptian. Mane initially played the ball in to Salah’s feet and continued his path towards the Blades goal, while Salah waited until the perfect moment to spring an inch perfect ball into his partner’s feet.

That goal made the former Southampton man the 14th Reds player to score a goal on every day of the week, which is a brilliant stat, but the best thing about the strike was how the two stars combined.

It’s totally natural for two world class strikers to use each other’s success as a springboard for their own. You don’t top the charts without a selfish streak and we’ve seen that from both of them this season and they strive for more and more.

We want them to have shots at goal because they’re capable of the improbable. They’re both brilliant finishers with an eye for goal, and we’re lucky to have them in our side.

This competition within a squad of elite athletes helps to drive them forward and to keep standards high and we should embrace it, like they’re embracing each other on the field.