Liverpool 'legend' Origi's best moments after late winner against Wolves

For a man so consistently on the fringes of the Liverpool first team, so often below the 11 starting names on the teamsheet, Divock Origi's reputation continues to grow in a manner befitting a star player year-on-year, moment after moment.

On Saturday, Wolves were on the receiving end of the King of the Late Late Show. The score deadlocked at 0-0, Mohamed Salah turned provider and found Origi in the box in the final minute of time added on.

And with a quick swivel and low shot, the points were Liverpool's, cueing crazy scenes on the pitch, in the away end and on the touchline.

Origi has only scored twice in the Premier League this season - his other goal a late consolation at West Ham - but he makes an impact. He's only played 38 minutes in total, but is still on more goals than Tottenham's Harry Kane.

Afterwards, Jurgen Klopp could barely contain his fanatical admiration for the 26-year-old Belgian, who has now been at the club for over six years: 'Divock Origi, the legend, finished it off and it’s a great story. I told him when he came on it was his game. This kind of goal we see plenty of times, in training.

'Winning in the 95th minute is great but Div scoring it is even better. He has scored some of the most important goals in the history of this club.'

That is no exaggeration either. Throughout Klopp's six-year tenure at the club, Origi has regularly popped up with crucial goals, mostly late on in tightly-contested games.

In fact, one of Klopp's most famous moments in his first few months at Anfield can be credited with Origi's involvement.

Down by a goal at home to West Brom in December 2015, a then 20-year-old Origi cut in from the left and struck a deflected shot which fortuitously spun into the bottom corner.

The relief was palpable. Yet in an odd move, Klopp gathered his players together and they formed a line in front of the Kop, linked arms and raised their hands in front of, presumably, a slightly confused set of supporters.

But it had the desired effect for Klopp, showing a connection between the players and the fanbase.

Later that season, Origi got the ball rolling in the famous Europa League quarter-final comeback against Borussia Dortmund, stabbing home from close range in a game remembered for Dejan Lovren's late winner.

He did not start the final though, and unusually couldn't influence proceedings as a substitute as the Reds slumped to a disappointing defeat against Sevilla.

The following season, where he appeared more regularly as a replacement, Origi scored big goals against Sunderland, West Ham and Everton, whom he has scored against five times in total.

Yet the most famous of these was the start of his real love affair with the Liverpool supporters.

After spending the 2017-18 season out on loan at Wolfsburg, Origi had not played a single Premier League minute when he came in the 84th minute of the Merseyside Derby at Anfield.

With a title-chasing Reds being held, all hope looked lost in the dying moments when Virgil van Dijk's volley sailed high towards the goal.

You know the rest. Everton keeper Jordan Pickford made a mess of it and Origi - right place, right time - was there to pounce, heading into an open net.

Cue bedlam all around, to the point where a perplexed Origi actually got the ball out of the net and started running towards the centre-circle, before being surrounded by team-mates. Klopp was too busy on the other side of the pitch, hugging Alisson Becker.

The forgotten man was in Reds' hearts everywhere.

Months later in May, Origi came on to score at the death with a header away at Newcastle, to keep Liverpool's Premier League title hopes alive.

A few days after that, he starred in one of the most famous Champions League comebacks ever against Barcelona, scoring the first and the last goal in an incredible 4-0 victory.

The latter strike was a moment of pure instinct after Trent Alexander-Arnold's ingenious quick corner, first time into the top corner.

Again, like the Europa League final three years earlier, Origi was consigned to a place on the bench for the final against Tottenham. But this time, his impact was felt.

As the Reds nervously sat on a 1-0 lead in the closing minutes, the ball broke to the Belgian on the edge of the box and he rifled home a left foot shot into the corner.

Liverpool's supersub had done it again.

In the years since, Origi's role has not increased despite his heroics. The following season - when the Reds stormed to the Premier League title - he only scored twice in the league, but both those goals came brilliantly in the derby yet again.

Last season, he regularly wasn't in the squad as the Reds struggled. Surely, this time, he was in the departure lounge and ready to take a flight?

Not so. Nobody came in for Origi. So, a much-valued member of Klopp's squad stayed, and on Saturday his patience was rewarded.

Now 26 and in his peak years, Origi still does not itch to leave, nor cause a scene of defiance despite his lack of game-time. It is that which is of huge credit to him, and a point not missed by his manager or team-mates.

Klopp added: 'He’s an incredible striker, for different reasons he did not play that often but I hope one day he finds a manager that plays him more than I do.

'He’s one of the best finishers I’ve ever seen in my life. In this great team, with our [front] three, he doesn’t play all the time but he is a very positive boy, loves the club, wants to contribute and he did in an incredible way.'

'If I would be in another club I would go for him. I thought that would happen but I cannot believe if you don’t play for Liverpool, you cannot be good. But I am very happy he is still here.'

Andy Robertson, Jordan Henderson and Van Dijk were among the players raving about Origi in the aftermath on social media on Saturday.

Out of the Belgian's 21 Premier League goals, six have come in the final 15 minutes of games - 16 in the second half of matches.

And as the Reds target a second title in three years, he could well be Klopp's wild card once again.