HIS legs stretch across the turf like a snooker cue rest lying on the green baize. And they have a similar effect as that piece of apparatus - reaching things that mere mortals find physically impossible.
It's the incredible extending limbs of Momo Sissoko that give him that bit extra.
And they could provide the added leg-up Liverpool need to catch, and indeed overtake, Chelsea for real.
Yesterday proved once again that they can do it over one game. But it's the 38 coming up that they need to be worried about.
You need a squad to cope with such demands and, to that end, players who will take responsibility when their mates aren't around to do it for them.
Here's where Sissoko steps in. Analysing the individual pieces of magic dust that he sprinkled throughout the game gives encouragement enough.
Michael Ballack was forced into an early booking as Sissoko somehow squeezed the ball down the line just when the German thought he had him cornered.
When the roles were reversed and Ballack finished up on his backside, it was courtesy of a perfectly-timed piece of good old-fashioned ball winning from his midfield opponent.
Arjen Robben must have felt he was under some sort of octopus attack as Sissoko wrapped his leg around the Dutchman to halt one of his trademark speed surges.
And the hit list was then complete when Andriy Shevchenko suddenly appeared invisible as the big man strode through him and casually waltzed off with possession.
But the bigger picture paints an even more attractive landscape for Liverpool.
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