Arne Slot takes charge of his first Champions League game at Anfield on Wednesday evening, when his Liverpool side host Bologna.
A stellar start to life in the Merseyside chair has seen Slot steer Liverpool to the top of the Premier League table with 15 points from their first six games, and they also conquered AC Milan 3-1 in their first European game of the new term.
Ibrahima Konate, Virgil van Dijk and Dominik Szoboszlai were responsible for the goals on that occasion, which was a quiet evening for Mohamed Salah, but the Egyptian was back to doing what he does best at the weekend.
Indeed, Salah scored the winner from the penalty spot in the Reds' 2-1 top-flight success over Wolverhampton Wanderers, moving onto five goals and four assists from just eight games in the 2024-25 season.
Here, Sports Mole takes a look at how the winger has fared against Bologna in the past.
Mohamed Salah's record vs. Bologna
Played: 3
Wins: 2
Draws 1
Losses: 0
Goals: 5
Assists: 0
As Liverpool never played Bologna before the 2024-25 Champions League campaign, and Chelsea never faced the Italian side during Salah's spell at Stamford Bridge, the 32-year-old has only ever taken on the Rossoblu a handful of times.
The Egypt international experienced his first taste of Italian football in the 2014-15 season with Fiorentina, but Bologna were not in the top flight that year, being promoted via the Serie B playoffs for the 2015-16 campaign.
Salah had penned a permanent contract at Roma by that point and took on Bologna three times while representing the Giallorossi, who won two and drew one of those fixtures with the Egyptian in the team, and he was fond of a goal against the Rossoblu.
The Liverpool star managed to find the back of the net in all three of those appearances against Bologna, as after missing a 2-2 draw in November 2015 due to an ankle injury, he equalised for Roma in a 1-1 stalemate later that season.
A few months down the line in November 2016, Salah was responsible for all three Roma goals in a 3-0 beating of Bologna at Stadio Olimpico, the first hat-trick of his senior club career.
Salah subsequently hurt his ankle again not long after, but he returned to scoring ways against Bologna in April 2017, where Roma once again bested the Rossoblu 3-0 with Salah scoring the second goal of the contest.
The winger's strike arrived in between efforts from Federico Fazio and Edin Dzeko, and even though he has not faced Bologna since, not many would put it past him continuing his golden streak against them on Wednesday.
Indeed, Salah has scored in each of his last four Champions League games at Anfield, and the 32-year-old could now become the first Liverpool man to score in five successive home games in Europe's premier competition.
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