Mo Salah was so close to Premier League first during his last game in the competition for Liverpool

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Mohamed Salah did not quite get his dream Liverpool send-off, failing to register a goal on his final Premier League outing for the club.The assist for Curtis Jones was fabulous, even if the VAR check meant the celebration was a little more underwhelming than it should have been. Salah still found ways to influence the game, as he so often has across his remarkable Anfield career.

Very strange 🤔 Photo by Liverpool FC/Liverpool FC via Getty Images He also came close to scoring on a couple of occasions. One moment in particular stood out, with Salah almost adding something he had never managed before in the Premier League.Mo Salah was inches away from first Premier League free-kick goalSalah has scored almost every kind of goal imaginable for Liverpool, but a direct free-kick in the Premier League has somehow always escaped him.In 315 Premier League appearances for the Reds, he has scored 35 penalties, but has never rifled a set-piece in from outside the box.

He came agonisingly close against Brentford, with Salah’s old teammate Caoimhin Kelleher standing in his way. A first Premier League free-kick goal, at Anfield, in his final league game for Liverpool, would have felt almost too perfect.Still, the performance Salah produced was nothing short of excellent, even if he could not add that achievement to the long list.READ MORE: Liverpool fans are all saying the same thing about Caoimhin Kelleher vs BrentfordJoin Our NewsletterReceive a digest of our best Liverpool content each week direct to your mailbox