Mohamed Salah injury: Liverpool legend may have played final game for club after hamstring strain in Crystal Palace win

There was a look of disbelief on Mohamed Salah's face as he smiled wryly beneath the Anfield sun - surely it couldn't end like this.

For a moment, it was all so familiar. With Liverpool cruising at 2-0 against Crystal Palace, Salah cut in from the right with a trademark run before delivering a delicate back heel to Dominik Szoboszlai inside the penalty area.

But then there was a hush as supporters began to realise what was unfolding. Salah, reluctantly sinking to the turf and clutching his left hamstring, stared into the cloudless blue sky knowing his third-to-last Anfield appearance was over - and with it perhaps his Liverpool career.

Anfield rose to applaud Salah and he returned the praise, clapping all four sides and savouring the moment as he departed the pitch. Four hundred and thirty-nine appearances and 257 goals, and this is how it ends?

"We don't know," hoped head coach Arne Slot.