Luis Diaz sinks Mohamed Salah in front of Real Madrid's Militao and Alaba

The departure of Sadio Mané broke Liverpool's equilibrium, and while they are barely holding on, Mo Salah is no longer the same up front at Anfield. It is true that Luis Diaz had managed to replace and almost improve on the third in discord in the Reds' trident, Roberto Firmino; Diogo Jota also came on as an addition, but the latter's injury and above all the relapse of the former have left the Egyptian fearing the worst against familiar and fateful opponents.

In particular, Eder Militao and David Alaba, and in general, Real Madrid, who have deprived them of major titles in recent years. The relapse of the Colombian has set off alarm bells in Jürgen Klopp's team, as he is an immovable piece of the eleven type of the team of the city of the Beatles, however the Colombian player can be up to three months in the dry dock.

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That rules him out for the Champions League last-16 clash with Real Madrid, and that means a lot less firepower for the English attack. The emotional blow is hard, because Diaz had already missed a good part of October and all of November's competition, he was thought to be ready for the first leg at Anfield and now with this relapse suffered in Dubai, where Liverpool were concentrating, the English need to reconfigure their chances.

In this case, will they make a move to Merseyside? It looks like the Reds will wait until the summer and that sets up the English trident with Salah, Darwin Nunez and Firmino, surely backed from the bench by the Portuguese, who is still recovering from a serious injury. Yes, it's a great front line, but without the ability to run away with the ball, partnership and depth offered by the former Porto player.

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Liverpool-Real Madrid is becoming one of the great classics of the Champions League, with the two sides having met only three times in finals. Salah, in fact, has experienced two and lost both, most recently at the Stade de France on 28 May. The African has not fared well in their previous duels either, that 2018 final and the quarter-final tie in the 20/21 campaign, where the Whites also went through.