Liverpool have a new psychological weapon as only one question now remains

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But in all likelihood, the Liverpool boss probably never doubted the outcome as his team left it late yet again to secure another big victory.

For what is now the fifth game running, the Premier League champions scored their winning goal in the closing stages, this time to give lift-off to their efforts to bring home a seventh European Cup and prove that their flair for the dramatic is not confined only to domestic duty.

Virgil van Dijk's 92nd-minute header to seal a 3-2 win over Atletico Madrid here means it is still Dominik Szoboszlai's free-kick against Arsenal that remains the earliest the Reds have scored any of their winning goals this term, which came after a mere 83 minutes.

And for all the talk of Liverpool putting their fans - and head coach - through the emotional wringer every week with their apparent unwillingness to put games to bed before the final knockings, their ability to continue scoring so late only fosters a belief that it can be done.

It's quite the string to have on the bow when prizes like the Champions League and Premier League are within reach.

Marcos Llorente's 81st-minute volley, his second goal of the game, should have been the sucker punch that took the air out of the Anfield night.

Those who had 92 in the sweep will have cleaned up this time as Van Dijk nodded home in stoppage time to secure a fifth successive win.

Slot has not done a perfect job of concealing his frustration with how his side were eliminated from this competition last season and the continued reference to that penalty-shootout loss to eventual winners Paris Saint-Germain in March has laid bare how much he resented it, in fact.

And while it would be a stretch to suggest the motivation for this European Cup campaign is a burning sense of injustice, there is at least merit in the theory that he is driven by some unfinished business.

There are some in the squad who have privately made known this is the tournament they want to win more than any other this season too after scaling domestic heights last time out.

All eyes at kick off, inevitably, were trained on Alexander Isak, who was making his debut after signing for a British record fee of £125m on transfer deadline day from Newcastle United.

But the new No.9 showed enough flashes during his hour-long cameo to excite the supporters for what is to come across the course of his six-year contract.

The link-up with his fellow £100m man, Florian Wirtz, started to become increasingly influential as the first period wore on and Isak's give-and-go with the Germany international should have brought a goal when Jan Oblak was rounded only for Jeremie Frimpong to overegg the pudding with his presence on the scene, which allowed Atleti to clear.

Liverpool have invested over £240m in the deals to bring Wirtz and Isak to Merseyside, completing a couple of blockbuster moves that are as much about future prosperity as they are about delivering right now and it will be fascinating to see how that fledgling relationship develops in the coming weeks and months.

This was his most encouraging outing yet.

Liverpool came haring out the traps and after Andy Robertson had deflected in Salah's free-kick inside four minutes, the Egyptian added one that was indisputably his just a few seconds later.