Vinicius Junior is Real Madrid's Usain Bolt, Liverpool's defence could not get near him

But somehow none of it had affected Vinicius — that much soon became clear. Only seven minutes after Courtois’s costly mistake put Liverpool two ahead, the Brazilian silenced the stadium with a stunning shot across Alisson’s goal. From the left corner of the penalty area to the bottom right corner of goal, fired between Joe Gomez and Fabinho, more whip than an Indiana Jones film.

A lot had been made about the contest between Vinicius on Real Madrid’s left wing and Trent Alexander-Arnold at Liverpool right-back in the build-up to the game. One of the most potent forwards in the world — scorer of the solo winning goal against Liverpool in last year’s final — up against a naturally forward-thinking full-back with boundless attacking attributes but curiously — for a defender — suspect at defending.

On reflection it was perhaps unfair to place so much of the onus on one defender to deal with an opponent who clearly requires at least two, three — sometimes even four — to stop him. Still images showed four or five Liverpool shirts in close proximity to the 22-year-old when he scored his first of the evening. Same again soon after when he attempted a near-identical effort that laced through about five Liverpool players before Alisson was this time able to get a hand to it at full stretch.

There seemed to be a panicked air to Liverpool’s players every time Vinicius was in the vicinity of the ball and it took its toll in the 36th minute when Gomez passed back to his goalkeeper and Alisson tried to return the ball only to realise there he was, in a flash, sticking out a foot to send the ball looping in for the equaliser. Maybe Alisson should be forgiven — most normal humans simply don’t move that fast.

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