AS Roma vs Liverpool: 3 things to watch in the second leg

#1 Salah's much-anticipated return

Can Salah cause greater damage at Rome?

All the pre-match comments building up to this fixture is cluttered with talks of Mohammed Salah returning to his old stomping ground. This is the place where the Egyptian ace established himself after poor spells at Chelsea and Fiorentina; enjoying two prolific seasons and also helping the Giallorossi finish within the top three in the league, in each.

There's a plausible sense of nostalgia among the Rome faithful and Salah himself, as this would be his first return to the stadium since swapping the Italian capital for the Merseyside last summer. But he returns as a different beast; something the fans of Roma didn't witness in those two years.

Salah has taken his game straight into the stratosphere since donning the red of Liverpool, bagging 43 goals in 47 games, four more than what he managed in entirety at Roma. And two of those came against them in the first-leg, as we all saw him battering his former side.

The spotlight will be on him once again, and Salah breaking the Olimpico hoodoo to consign his side to an exit would be the perfect post-match fable.