OWEN and Heskey, Owen and Diouf, Owen and Smicer, Owen and Smith, Owen and Baros.
Is it any wonder that Michael Owen is struggling to find the back of the net when he can hardly remember who is playing alongside from one game to the next?
Owen has had five different strike partners for Liverpool and England already this season, and that's in only nine games.
Neither Liverpool boss Gerard Houllier nor England coach Sven Goran Eriksson seems sure who is best to play alongside him.
They both used to think it was Emile Heskey, and he was the bludgeon to Owen's rapier during Liverpool's historic 2001 Treble success and England's World Cup campaign.
But Heskey's position beside Owen for club and country has gradually been pushed out of favour because of the former Leicester striker's lack of goals.
He began the season up front with Owen against Arsenal in the Charity Shield, but soon found himself shifted out to the left wing for Liverpool and England.
Next up was £10million El Hadji Diouf, and the Senegalese World Cup star started three games, scoring two goals, beside Owen for Liverpool before he went back to the bench.
Vladimir Smicer then had a go, operating just behind Owen. But that promising partnership came to an abrupt end when the Czech international broke his toe.
Back came Diouf for another crack, but still Houllier was not entirely happy and so against West Brom it was club partnership number four for Owen when he was paired with Milan Baros.
The partnership worked to a degree and Baros opened the scoring on 56 minutes at Anfield with a deft header to register his third Premiership goal in just two starts.
The waters seem just as muddy for Owen with England. With the opening Euro 2004 qualifiers against Slovakia and Macedonia just three weeks away, Eriksson does not have a settled partner for Owen.
Leeds' Alan Smith would appear to be in the box seat following his goal on his full debut against Portugal, but he and Owen have not even played a full 90 minutes together.
Teddy Sheringham has been retired, Robbie Fowler is still weeks away from returning from hip surgery, while Darius Vassell seems to have lost his way this season.
All this adds to the nagging feeling that part of the reason Owen is struggling to score is down to his lack of a settled strike partner.
Houllier puts Owen's troubles down to the fact that he came back from the World Cup with a slight injury, but it must be hard for him to establish any sort of rhythm when he does not know who he is playing with from one game to the next.
Owen, 22, is continually having to adjust to the very different styles of Heskey, Smicer, Diouf, Smith and Baros. And all this at a time when really he should just be focused on sticking the ball into the back of the net.
Just compare his situation with that of Thierry Henry. Arsenal's French hitman knows he will invariably start with Sylvain Wiltord and/or Dennis Bergkamp and it is more than mere coincidence that the Frenchman has already scored five goals for Arsenal this season.
Owen's plight becomes even more alarming given a quick glance at 12 months ago.This time last season he had already amassed 13 goals for Liverpool and England - including that hat-trick in Munich.
That must seem a lifetime ago for Owen now and against West Brom he had another bad day at the office.
His latest miserable afternoon was summed up when his poor penalty in the 36th minute was saved by substitute goalkeeper and Liverpool fan Joe Murphy with the first touch of his Baggies career. It was Owen's second miss from the spot this campaign and his penalty against Newcastle remains the only goal he has scored for either Liverpool or England this season.
Houllier had hoped that leaving Owen out of the starting line-up for the last two games would help him rediscover his killer touch.
That ploy did not work, but he remains confident that the European Footballer of the Year will soon come good.
"The goals will come," said Houllier. "The most important thing is that he's creating chances.
"He created one for himself in the first half. He had a good effort in the second half and Murphy made a good save.
"He also laid off the ball to John Arne Riise for the second goal.
"Michael has had a lot of shots on target, but unfortunately didn't score again today. That misfortune will be overcome by his mental strength.
"In training I see he is much sharper and livelier and really he could easily be the top goal-scorer in this league at the moment."
To Owen's immense credit he did not hide after his penalty miss and it only seemed to make him more determined to score.
But his luck is definitely out and he curled a teasing right-foot shot just wide of the far corner before he saw a goalbound effort blocked by Lars Sigurdsson.
He could at least claim an assist when in stoppage time he set up Riise to fire home Liverpool's second.
But even that goal just underlined his own misery and Riise is now Liverpool's joint-top scorer with three goals - two more than Owen.
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