ARNE SLOT'S vision is now crystal clear – even if it did get a bit dark for a while tonight and not just because of the fog that hung over Anfield.
A first Premier League title in his first season as Liverpool manager is now on the horizon.
With the lead at the top extended to seven points and a game in hand against second-place Chelsea, it is more than just a glittering image in the distance.
After Jordan Ayew's shock early try, they easily got past the brave but ultimately futile challenge from Ruud van Nistlerooy's side.
Slot's debut campaign in English football is only gathering pace, fueled by an unbeaten run that now stretches to a whopping 22 games since his only defeat to Nottingham Forest on September 14.
Triumph, less than half a season after succeeding Jurgen Klopp in a job that many feared would be impossible due to the vast space the German had cleared, is in his hands.
All he and his players, and of course the top of the Champions League, have to do is stay stable, keep believing, and it will certainly be theirs.
Although not for the first time this season, their start to a match was anything but steady as Ayew produced a stunning opener.
Slot will worry in his quieter moments that, for all his determination to make his defense a more reliable unit, he still has work to do.
But going forward, Liverpool are going from strength to strength, scoring two or more goals in thirteen of their last fourteen games.
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Indeed, they have also overtaken Tottenham as the Prem's top scorer.
The fog raised concerns that this clash might have to be called off and even ten minutes before kick-off, Anfield was plunged into darkness.
But within three minutes, Leicester were blinded by their opponent's full beam attack.
Polish goalkeeper Jakub Stolarczyk, who made his Prem debut in place of Danny Ward, will have wondered what happened to him.
Ward, the target of the club's boo-boys in Sunday's 3-0 humiliation against Wolves, didn't even make the bench after also coming on as a half-time substitute in the 4-0 defeat to Newcastle.
Yet dreams for the 24-year-old who spent the second half of last season on loan at Hartlepool cannot be made from that panic start.
For he was a Fox caught in the headlights as Slot's men tried to run the ball into the net before Salah's strike hit a post.
But instead of settling down, Van Nistelrooy's side, without injured icon Jamie Vardy, were ahead three minutes later – perhaps to their own surprise.
Left winger Stephy Mavididi went for it on the wing against Trent Alexander-Arnold and not for the first time this season the star was defeated under the Real Madrid spotlight.
Mavididi steadied himself before squaring off and Ayew then performed brilliantly.
As Andy Robertson lined up to close, the former Crystal Palace veteran produced a magical pirouette before firing a perfectly low shot past the battered Alisson and into his right-hand post.
Slot's side may well have gone into the game believing it was for their own publicity, given that so many around them have declared the title is theirs to lose.
But even though they went too easy on that first attack, it actually seemed too easy to them as they continued their attack.
Cody Gakpo was unlucky with one shot, Salah saw his effort deflected just a few centimeters over the crossbar.
And in the 25th minute, Robertson crept into the penalty area to connect with Alexis Mac Allister's chip, with his header landing almost exactly in the same spot as his Egyptian teammate.
However, Van Nistelrooy's fighters could not continue to try their luck, although there was nothing happy at all about Gakpo's equalizer.
It just had to do with pure class.
Slot's compatriot collected the ball on the left flank, checked inside and then unleashed a wonderful, curling right-footer that Stolarczyk could only see as it slid past him and into his top left corner.
That goal came a few seconds before injury time in the first half.
Four minutes after half time it was party time again for the Slot men.
And once again there was something special about the way they powered their way through Leicester's yellow ranks before Salah slotted the ball across the penalty area and Curtis Jones was there to calmly tap over the line.
A VAR check for offside was needed to confirm the goal in what would have been the midfielder's 100th Prem appearance, but there was no discussion of how high that goal was from start to finish.
Leicester were not quite ready yet and Alisson dodged a bullet after an hour.
Because if Patson Daka had remained calm, he would certainly have put away another clever pass from Mavididi, but instead he miskicked by about ten meters.
After taking the hint, Liverpool returned to high-energy attacking mode and Darwin Nunez – given a start to give No. 1 forward Diogo Jota a break – finally emerged from his own brain fog.
His shot from Salah's cross looked perfect to be fair to the erratic Uruguayan, but Stolarczyk excelled with a heroic block.
Gakpo thought he had claimed a second after smashing a shot into the net, only for a VAR check that seemed to take forever to be canceled with Nunez meticulously offside.
Yet the third would always come and almost every time a killing blow was needed it came again from Salah.
He collected the ball, moved forward in his usual quick fashion, and when Van Nistelrooy's defense thought they were ready to clear the danger, he simply used Victor Kristiansen as a wall to block his dart in before he could even curled an excellent shot past the goalkeeper. .
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