NewsWhy Ian Rush can't choose his favourite Liverpool goal

The Welshman plundered a massive 346 strikes during his time at Anfield, a tally that sits unmatched at the top of the club’s list of prolific players.

There were a host of clinical finishes, match-winning efforts and cup final strikes among Rush’s Reds catalogue. And they all held equal meaning to the man who delivered them.

Asked for his No.1 in an interview with the LFC matchday programme, Rush replied: “Everyone asks me that question and the honest answer is I don’t have one.

“It was my job to score goals. Whether I scored from one yard out or 20, I got the same satisfaction because you see the smiles on people’s faces and the pleasure you give to the fans on the Kop.

“They all meant as much to me.

“It’s only when you finish playing that you begin to realise how well you’d done. I can say it now because I don’t have to do it!

“I’ve been doing a documentary recently, going through all the goals and games. You start thinking: that was good! So it brings back memories and you get a bit emotional, to tell the truth.

“But when you were playing, you couldn’t afford to do that. You had to concentrate on what your job was and mine was to score goals.”

These days, that task for Liverpool falls to the likes of Luis Diaz, Cody Gakpo, Diogo Jota, Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah as the five senior forwards in Jürgen Klopp’s squad.

And Rush gave his view of the benefits of having such strong competition within the attacking ranks.

“We’ve got such an array of attacking talent, they’d walk into any other first team,” he said. “They can’t all play at the same time, but they can all give the manager a problem by staying fit, coming on, doing well, maybe scoring a goal, so he thinks he can’t afford to drop them.

“But he’ll also be looking at the opposition and thinking: he might be better for this game, he might be better for that. We’re very lucky to have such a formidable attacking force.”