Mohamed Salah cut a frustrated figure heading into half-time after seeing his 22nd-minute penalty saved by Newcastle United ‘keeper Martin Dubravka.
At one point, it seemed the Reds may once again suffer as the result of poor finishing.
However, Jurgen Klopp’s men responded perfectly in the second-half, with Mohamed Salah scoring a brace to ensure a 4-2 win against the Magpies.
Speaking to Sky Sports after the match, the Egyptian revealed that he swapped boots in the interval before going out and scoring a game winning brace:
“The other ones [boots] I missed the pen with, I just trained with yesterday,” Salah said.
“It’s not superstitious because I play with many boots.”
But when I feel it’s going to play with my head, OK, out, change the boots!”
“But I don’t like to go in the second half of this game thinking, ‘I didn’t score with this.’ So I just made my mind calm and focused on the game.”
It seemed that the boots switch worked as Mohamed Salah now has 14 goals and 8 assists in 20 games across all competitions.
However, he now leaves for the upcoming AFCON tournament.
The Egyptian could be gone until past 11 February, when the final is set to take place.
He will no doubt be eager to add the elusive AFCON trophy to his cabinet.
Mohamed Salah and his missed penalty
Salah also walked through his thought process for the two penalties he took:
“I’m calm. I try to do my job,” he said. “I always practise.”
“The first one I was confused because the goalkeeper was moving and he was waving and I thought, ‘OK let’s go in the middle’, but he managed to save it very well.”
“The second one I did what I did in training and did my thing.”
In other news, the man himself has had his say on missing the upcoming Liverpool games.