Jurgen Klopp has no doubts about Mohamed Salah’s high quality and believes the ahead can play a key function in Liverpool reaching “something special” this season.
Liverpool will head into Saturday’s match at Wolves tenth within the Premier League, 10 factors behind fourth-placed Manchester United within the battle for Champions League locations.
The Reds, who’re additionally out of each home cups and face Real Madrid within the Champions League, haven’t had Salah at his good greatest this season.
Although Salah is Liverpool’s joint-top scorer within the league this season, he has netted solely seven occasions in 19 matches. Across his first 5 campaigns at Anfield, he tallied 118 top-flight targets.
This comes after a close-season through which Salah signed a profitable new Liverpool contract as team-mate Sadio Mane was allowed to go away.
But Klopp got here to the defence of his star man forward of the Wolves recreation, telling reporters: “That perspective and these sort of issues should not Mo’s drawback.
“Mo’s a world-class athlete, so he’s the primary in, final out, trains arduous. Now he’s not scoring, however there’s individuals on the market that assume, ‘why did they give Klopp a contract?’, in order that’s how it’s in our world.
“It’s fully high-quality. If we don’t ship within the moments, if there’s criticism, it’s no drawback.
“You can question character, knowledge, ability, everything. You have the right to do everything, but you cannot score the amount of goals Mo scored if you are not an outstanding, world-class football player.”
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He added: “There are moments when Mo in fact would have scored final yr. You assume that had something to do with the brand new contract or no matter?
“That’s simply not proper. Things are like they’re and the one approach we can cease all these questions and discussions is by performing to our high, high degree and that’s what we have now to do and what we’ll work on.
“We are actually on it, and we’re still straight, constructive, we wish to play within the video games and we consider in our possibilities to achieve something particular even this yr.
“It’s not great to be not leader of the pack, but we are in a position where we can improve a lot the situation in the table and we have to start tomorrow and continue from there.”
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