Liverpool boss Slot gives opinion about Salah
Liverpool boss Arne Slot has hailed “special” Salah after seeing him fire the Premier League leaders to the brink of victory at Newcastle. Liverpool and Newcastle drew 3-3 draw at St James’ Park.
The 32-year-old Egypt international’s future at Anfield remains a topic of debate with his current contract running down.
Asked about Salah’s future, Slot said: “It’s difficult for me to predict the long-term future, but the only thing I can expect or predict is that he is in a very good place at the moment.
“After the week we had we could change the game which is a very positive thing to take. Every time we need Mo Salah he scores a goal.
“We are hoping and expecting he can continue this for a long time. He was outstanding in the second half, he did many special things for us.
“He plays in a very good team that provides him with good opportunities and then he is able to do special things.
“And what makes him for me even more special is that in the first hour or before we scored to make it 1-1, you thought, ‘He’s not playing his best game today’, and to then come up with a half-hour or 45 minutes – I don’t know how long it was – afterwards with an assist, two goals, having a shot on the bar, being a constant threat, that is something not many players can do if they’ve played the first hour like he did.
“That is also what makes him special. If you just look at the goals, his finish is so clinical. He’s a special player, but that’s what we all know,” Sky News reported.
Mohamed Salah has both scored and assisted in 37 different Premier League matches, overtaking Wayne Rooney (36) as the player to have done so on the most occasions in the competition.
Salah has also scored in each of his last seven Premier League matches, with the Egyptian becoming just the third player to have two separate runs of 7-plus consecutive games scored in a row in the competition along with Jamie Vardy and Ruud van Nistelrooy.
Salah has been directly involved in 13 goals across his last seven Premier League games (nine goals, four assists), while it is just the third time a Liverpool player has netted in seven consecutive matches in the competition (after Daniel Sturridge in 2014 and Salah in 2021).
- Culled from Sky Sports
