Joel Matip has proved himself Liverpool's king of memes with his vacant, deadpan face as the Champions League anthem boomed around Anfield.
As the camera panned past the 29-year-old defender in the line-up before Tuesday's group game against Ajax, Matip could be seen chewing gum and giving a 4,000-yard stare like he was waiting for a bus in the rain.
"Joel wondering if he left the bathroom light on," speculated one football fan.
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Like... when you can't remember if you locked your front door," offered another.
Sublime. Whatever Matip was thinking about, it clearly worked. Because with a lively Ajax team in front of him - and an inexperienced goalkeeper in Caoimhin Kelleher behind him - the Cameroonian was still able to keep a clean sheet.
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Curtis Jones' neat outside-of-the-boot finish (his first Champions League goal) gave Liverpool a 1-0 win and sealed their place in the knockout stages as Group D winners.
And Matip has sealed his place as the low-key king of LFC reactions. The No Context Joel Matip twitter account regularly gives football fans a treat, from his "jazz hands" to his stone-faced reactions.
"It's funny and I think I make a lot of people laugh, so it's not too bad," he told Liverpoolfc.com last year.
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"I can laugh about myself, that's absolutely no problem. I'm looking at this and I say, 'Ah, that's quite funny'."
Great that Matip can see the funny side of his celebrity status on social media. Even though he really didn't look like cracking a smile against Ajax on Tuesday.
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