Liverpool booked their place in the Champions League round-of-16 on Tuesday night as they ran out 2-1 winners over Ligue 1 side Lille. Goals from Mohamed Salah and Harvey Elliott clinched the victory for the Reds as they maintained their 100% winning record in this season’s league phase.

A last-minute Barcelona winner away at Benfica denied Arne Slot’s men top spot for now. But with Liverpool sitting top of the table, they are still well-placed to secure top seeding next week when they travel to PSV Eindhoven for their final league match.

But you already know all that. So instead, here are some of the moments that instead might have gone under the radar at Anfield…

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‘Ladies and gentleman, Liverpool will be playing’…

Slot might have suggested otherwise at his unveiling as Liverpool head coach back in the summer, but the Reds have favoured a 4-2-3-1 formation since he joined the club.

It was the case against Lille with Ryan Gravenberch starting at number six, Curtis Jones alongside him and Dominik Szoboszlai stationed as the most advanced midfielder. Such positioning is not a shock to those who have watched the Reds all season long.

But it appears UEFA have not been playing close enough attention. On their teamsheet, not for the first time, they listed Liverpool as playing 4-3-3. The fact they correctly listed Lille in a 4-2-3-1 set-up only brought further attention upon the faux pas.

Mad Mandi

Aissa Mandi was sent off for Lille for a second bookable offence just before the hour-mark after tripping Luis Diaz. No complaints there. But how the Algerian picked up his first yellow card might have gone unnoticed.

Liverpool opened the scoring through Salah as he ran onto Curtis Jones’ through-ball following an inch-perfect sliding tackle from Kostas Tsimikas on Jonathan David. Replays showed the Greek clearly won the ball.

But Lille’s players thought otherwise as they angrily protested, as David stayed down following the tackle.

A furious Mandi led the remonstrations with referee Felix Zwayer and was cautioned for his troubles, with team-mate Remy Cabella ultimately required to hold him back to prevent him from getting himself into further trouble.

Such fume would prove most costly for the Algerian, regardless, as his act of dissent opened the door to his eventual dismissal.

Szoboszlai subbed twice

Slot made two substitutions at half-time as Alexis Mac Allister and Elliott came on for Ryan Gravenberch and the injured Curtis Jones. However, the Dutchman would admit after the final whistle that it had originally been his plan to withdraw Dominik Szoboszlai instead.

Perhaps the Voice of Anfield, George Sephton, had been savvy to such information? As the second-half restarted, with Szoboszlai very much standing on the edge of the centre-circle, Liverpool’s long-standing stadium announcer announced that the Hungarian had been withdrawn at the break to the bemusement of supporters.

He only had to wait 18 minutes for Szoboszlai to actually be taken off though, this time correctly announcing his departure as Wataru Endo came on in his place.

Salah shocks Elliott

A Salah selfie with Liverpool goalscorers is becoming a trademark post-match celebratory act from the Reds’ Egyptian King. It has not gone unnoticed, with Andy Robertson even joking earlier in the season that he would be granted such an honour one day.

Tuesday night was Elliott’s turn after scoring Liverpool’s winner. Although his second goal of the campaign, Salah was not involved when he netted in the Reds’ League Cup victory over Southampton last month.

Posing for a picture with the man of the match trophy, Salah shocked Elliott when he called him over for a selfie for official club media.

“Harvey! Wait, we’ll take a picture first,” he said. Elliott replied: “Finally, I’m allowed?!”

After taking the snap, Salah then said: “No, we take a picture… can you give me my phone, please?”

Taking his own snap on his own device, he would later post a second selfie with Elliott from inside the Liverpool dressing room.